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.

She is likely the only survivor out of the 45 people who were on board, according to a news release from the German charity organization Compass Collective.

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone 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 CompassCollective said the 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.

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.

The “exhausted and cold” girl was saved by a German-flagged sailboat after withstanding a three-day storm and big waves.

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.

Rescue yacht saves child, believed to be from Sierra Leone, who was on boat carrying 45 people in Mediterranean

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.