About 40 migrants are considered missing off the Italian island of Lampedusa after the sole survivor, an 11-year-old girl, said the boat she was on sank three days ago, the report said. Wednesday a humanitarian NGO.
“We assume that she is the only survivor of the shipwreck and that the other 44 people drowned,” Compass Collective, an NGO that participates in migrant rescue missions in the Mediterranean, wrote in a statement after rescuing the girl.
The crew of the NGO’s Trotamar III vessel “heard the girl’s calls in the darkness” on Wednesday morning around 2:20 a.m. (01:20 GMT) as they headed to another emergency situation. “The 11-year-old girl, from Sierra Leone, had been floating in the water for three days with two improvised life jackets made from inner tubes filled with air and a simple life jacket,” adds the NGO.
Doctor Mauro Marino, who examined her, told daily La Repubblica that he believed the girl had spent around 12 hours in the water.
She told rescuers that the metal boat had left Sfax, Tunisia, and had sunk in a storm, according to the statement. She “had no drinking water or food with her and was hypothermic, but she was responsive and oriented,” according to the same source.
A spokesperson for Mediterranean Hope, another humanitarian NGO, told AFP that the little girl was recovering in hospital.
The Italian news agency ANSA reported that coast guard and police boats were checking the area where the boat sank on Wednesday, but so far they had not found any bodies or traces of death. clothes.
About 40 migrants are considered missing off the Italian island of Lampedusa after the sole survivor, an 11-year-old girl, said the boat she was on sank three days ago, the report said. Wednesday a humanitarian NGO. “We assume that she is the only survivor of the shipwreck and that the 44 other people…
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