Friends of a man extradited to Italy on Tuesday on people smuggling charges say police have the wrong man. Another Eritrean man told the BBC's Will Ross he recently shared a house in Sudan with the man who was arrested. An Eritrean man authorities say is Mr Mered was held in Sudan in May and flown to Rome on Tuesday. A spokesman for Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), that was involved in the operation, told the Press Association they were "liaising with our partners". The BBC spoke to one man, Hermon Berhe, who lives in Ethiopia and said he grew up in Eritrea with the man shown in the pictures.

Source: The Star June 09, 2016 03:10 UTC