Girl, 11, survives three days at sea

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An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was remarkably rescued after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said.  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 3 a.m. wearing a life jacket and hanging on to a pair of tyre tubes.  She told them she had set off from the Tunisian city of Sfax in a metal boat carrying 45 people that sank in a storm.  #SierraLeone #Shipwreck #Survivor #Lampedusa

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00:00An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea,

00:05the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island.

00:09The girl told rescuers she had set off from the Tunisian city of Esfax in a metal boat

00:13carrying 45 people that sank in a storm.

00:30In the past year and a half, more than 123,000 people have been rescued, women, men, children

00:36and infants.

00:37Stories that do not add up, those of the more than 40 people who died at sea on this

00:44endless journey of hope.

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