Ebrima Sanneh, 17, from Gambia walks to an immigration centre in the Sicilian town of Caltagirone, Italy April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/Files
CALTAGIRONE, Italy (Reuters) - Street gangs in Tripoli, known as Asma Boys, attacked him with shards of broken glass, slicing his leg and his face, 17-year-old Augustine Okukpon from Nigeria said at a shelter in Sicily.
Okukpon is just one of thousands of unaccompanied minors who have flooded into Italy, many with horror stories about their time in Libya, where people smugglers, militias and Islamic State militants operate with impunity in the chaos of civil war.
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