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.
In this image made available on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, by CompassCollective, rescuers attend to an 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone who was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy ’s southernmost Lampedusa island, and is believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked migrant boat that had departed from the port of Sfax in Tunisia .
According to the girl’s account, she had floated in the sea for three days using innertubes inflated with air and a lifejacket. She told rescuers that she had set out in a metal boat with about 45 others, and that she had been in contact with two other people until two days before the rescue, when the contact was broken.UK and Germany sign deal against people smugglers as Europe struggles to halt Channel crossings“We don’t know what happened to the people,’' Tempel said.
The Totamar III, a 13-meter vessel with a rotating crew of six, joined humanitarian rescue efforts in August 2023, rescuing more than 230 people to date. After picking up the girl, the boat distributed life jackets to 53 people aboard a wooden boat without a motor, and reported their location to Italian authorities.
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