An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy, and is thought to be the only survivor of a migrant boat that capsized after departing from Sfax,

A young girl, believed to be around the age of 10, has reached Lampedusa on a boat alone, rescuers said Wednesday. The little boat on which she was travelling had departed from Sfax, in Tunisia. The little girl's boat was rescued on December 8 by operators working for the NGO Trotamar III who helped her disembark at dawn on Wednesday.

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.

The young girl was found clinging to two inner tubes and a life vest in rough seas. "She had no food or water with her, and though she was suffering from hypothermia, she was awake and responsive," said Compass Collective.

More than 40 migrants are feared dead off Italy's Lampedusa after a lone 11-year-old survivor said the boat she was on capsized, a rescue group said Wednesday

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 crew on its vessel were en route to another emergency when they heard shouting from the water and picked up the girl around 3am wearing a life jacket and hanging on to a pair of tyre tubes.