An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone, identified as Yasmine, was rescued after surviving three days at sea following a shipwreck. The migrant boat she was on sank off the coast of Italy near Lampedusa.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.