An 11-year-old girl survived for three days at sea after a shipwreck off the coast of Italy by clinging to a pair of tire inner tubes, rescuers said Wednesday.
The child, originally from Sierra Leone in West Africa, was in a rickety migrant boat that set off days earlier from Tunisia.
The boat sank off the coast of Lampedusa during a storm, German rescue charity Compass Collective said in a statement. As many as 45 migrants were aboard. The girl, who was wearing a life vest, was the sole survivor.
