A humanitarian rescue group says its sailboat plucked from the central Mediterranean an 11-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a shipwreck in stormy seas.

An 11-year-old girl has been found clinging to tire tubes off the Italian coast after the migrant boat she was on sank three days earlier.

The girl from Sierra Leone was the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, rescuers said. Dozens of migrants likely died when their boat sank in a storm.

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone survived three days in the Mediterranean Sea, clinging to car inner tubes. The girl was rescued off the coast of Lampedusa and was taken to hospital with symptoms of hypothermia.

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued after surviving three days alone at sea following a deadly shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa, a rescue charity reported Wednesday (December 11, 2024). She was the only person to survive the tragic incident.

The crew of Germany’s CompassCollective rescued an 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone after she spent three days in sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was the only person rescued after a migrant boat believed to have 45 people on board sank.

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued by a German humanitarian group after surviving alone in the Mediterranean for days following a shipwreck. The girl, believed to be the sole survivor of a migrant boat that departed from Sfax,

The unnamed girl, from Sierra Leone, told them she had set off with another 44 people from Sfax in Tunisia. Their boat had sunk and all the other migrants were presumed dead. Thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe die during the treacherous journey in the Mediterranean every year.