An 11-year-old girl has been rescued after clinging to inner tubes for three days in stormy weather in the Mediterranean. Rescuers from non-governmental organisation Compass Collective said they were on their way to another emergency when they heard her calls for help.

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.

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. “We assume that she is the only survivor of the shipwreck and that the other 44 people drowned,

An 11-year-old girl was rescued from the central Mediterranean early Wednesday after clinging to two inner tubes for three days after the boat she was on sank in stormy weather. The non-governmental organization Compass Collective rescued the girl from Sierra Leone and was believed to be the only survivor from the boat that set out from Tunisia.