An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was remarkably rescued after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said.
Germany's CompassCollective said crew on its vessel were en route to another emergency when they heard shouting from the water and picked up the girl around 3 a.m. wearing a life jacket and hanging on to a pair of tyre tubes.
She told them she had set off from the Tunisian city of Sfax in a metal boat carrying 45 people that sank in a storm.
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Germany's CompassCollective said crew on its vessel were en route to another emergency when they heard shouting from the water and picked up the girl around 3 a.m. wearing a life jacket and hanging on to a pair of tyre tubes.
She told them she had set off from the Tunisian city of Sfax in a metal boat carrying 45 people that sank in a storm.
#SierraLeone #Shipwreck #Survivor #Lampedusa
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00:00An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea,
00:05the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island.
00:09The girl told rescuers she had set off from the Tunisian city of Esfax in a metal boat
00:13carrying 45 people that sank in a storm.
00:30In the past year and a half, more than 123,000 people have been rescued, women, men, children
00:36and infants.
00:37Stories that do not add up, those of the more than 40 people who died at sea on this
00:44endless journey of hope.