11-Year-Old Survives 3 Days Adrift After Mediterranean Shipwreck

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A lone 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued at 3:20 a.m. after staying afloat for three days in the Mediterranean Sea using tire tubes and a life jacket.

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How did the TROTAMAR III crew hear her voice over their running engine while headed to a different rescue mission?

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The metal boat carrying 45 migrants from Sfax, Tunisia capsized in fierce storms with 3-meter waves near Lampedusa, Italy - leaving no other survivors.

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The young survivor made contact with two others in the water two days after the shipwreck, but lost touch with them before rescue arrived.

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Despite having no food or water and suffering from hypothermia, medical reports confirm the girl stayed "responsive and oriented" through her 72-hour ordeal.

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Italian Coast Guard and police searched the wreckage area on December 11, finding no bodies or clothing remnants in the rough seas.

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What has caused over 30,000 migrants to die or disappear in Mediterranean crossings since 2014?

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"The persisting humanitarian crisis in the central Mediterranean is intolerable," IOM Director General António Vitorino stated in 2023, noting 20,000 deaths on this route.

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Storm conditions with 23-knot winds and 2.5-meter waves complicated the search for additional survivors.

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Can anything prevent more deaths on the world's deadliest migration route between Tunisia, Libya, Italy and Malta?

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CompassCollective's Katja Tempel demands "safe passages for refugees and an open Europe" as storms force people onto risky Mediterranean escape routes.

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Human rights organizations expose systemic failures in migrant protection - from denied rescues to documented maltreatment at European borders.

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