Girl, 11, rescued after shipwreck stranded her alone at sea for three days
The image made from a video provided by the Italian coast guard shows a patrol boat rescuing migrants from a sinking ship off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy. Photo: Italian Coast Guard via AP
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LAMPEDUSA, Italy- An 11-year-old girl was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said on Wednesday.
LAMPEDUSA, Italy- An 11-year-old girl was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said on Wednesday.
Germany’s Compass Collective 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 am wearing a life jacket and hanging on to a pair of tyre tubes.
The girls from Sierra Leone told them she had set off from the Tunisian city of Sfax in a metal boat carrying 45 people that sank in a storm.
Charity crew took care of the girl and took her to Lampedusa which is closer to North Africa than the rest of Italy and is often a first landing point for migrants.
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