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
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.
'The 11-year-old girl, originally from Sierra Leone, had been floating in the water for three days with two improvised life jackets made from tire tubes filled with air and a simple life jacket,' the group said in a statement. A Compass Collective volunteer assists an eleven-year-old girl from Sierra Leone, the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa Island, on board of rescue vessel Trotamar III in this handout picture released on December 11, 2024Italian news agency ANSA reported that the coast guard and police boats were searching the area on Wednesday where the shipwrecked boat was found.
The Mediterranean is one of the world's most dangerous migration routes. Image shows refugees disembarking after their arrival by dingy crossing the Aegean Sea at a beach in Lesbsos, Greece, September 2015 Thus far 2,050 migrants have died or gone missing this year while attempting to cross via the Central Mediterranean crossing, the world's deadliest migration route.
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