Italian news agency ANSA reports that the two Egyptian boys who helped avert a massacre on a hijacked bus near Milan in March will receive Italian citizenship.
The citizenship proposal for Ramy Shehata and Adam El Hamami was approved by cabinet on Tuesday evening.
Egyptian Sherata, 13, will be granted his wish for Italian citizenship after hiding his phone from the Senegalese-Italian school bus hijacker and calling in police to rescue the 51 kids before the man torched the vehicle outside Milan.
Tunisian El Hamami, 12, who called the police after Sherata, is also set for citizenship for special merits.
Seventeen of the 50 hijacked children suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, doctors said Tuesday.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini recently met Sherata and El Hamami at the interior ministry in Rome.
Salvini, who has changed his mind and decided to award them Italian citizenship, also met with the 49 other children from Crema and the Carabinieri who rescued them thanks to the pair’s phone calls