After a shipwreck, it becomes extremely difficult for one to survive, but an 11-year-old girl did so off the Italian coast.

Compass Collective spokeswoman Katja Tempel told the BBC that rescuers on board the Trotamar III vessel had found the young ...

An 11-year-old girl has been found clinging to tire tubes off the Italian coast after the migrant boat she was on sank three days earlier.

The German-flagged sailboat Trotamar III brought the girl to Lampedusa on Wednesday morning. She was suffering from hypothermia and had no food or water. "It was an incredible coincidence that we ...

The unnamed girl didn't have drinking water or food and was hypothermic when she was rescued by the sailboat TROTAMAR III. She said she had been in contact with two other people in the water two ...

In the release on Wednesday, Compass Collective, which owns the sailing boat Trotamar III, said its crew rescued the girl. The girl's boat had sunk three days ago off the Italian island of ...

The group's Trotamar III vessel "heard the calls in the darkness" of the girl Wednesday morning at approximately 2:20 am (0120 GMT) while heading to another emergency. "The 11-year-old girl ...

MILAN — An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked ...

She was found with a life jacket in the Mediterranean Sea early Wednesday morning by the crew of Trotamar II rescue vessel, which is run by the German NGO Compass Collective. She told rescuers ...

All other migrants are presumed dead.Trotamar III skipper Matthias Wiedenlübbert said they heard her cries in the darkness around 3:20 a.m. Wednesday (9:20 p.m. ET Tuesday). The boat, which had ...