"We assume that she is the only survivor of the shipwreck and that the other 44 people drowned," said CompassCollective, which assists in migrant rescue missions in the Mediterranean Sea.
"The 11-year-old girl, originally from Sierra Leone, had been floating in the water for three days with two improvised floatation devices made from tire tubes filled with air, and a simple life jacket."
The girl had no drinking water or food with her and was hypothermic, but reactive and oriented," when she was rescued. Despite being very tired, rescuers indicated she was recovering well at a hospital in Lampedusa, Italy.
The UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) says it has recorded more than 24,300 deaths and disappearances on the sea route between North African Tunisia and the EU.
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