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 migrant boat that had departed from the port of Sfax in Tunisia,

She is likely the only survivor out of the 45 people who were on board, according to a news release from the German charity organization Compass Collective.

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone, identified as Yasmine, was rescued after surviving three days at sea following a shipwreck. The migrant boat she was on sank off the coast of Italy near Lampedusa.

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 girl from Sierra Leone was the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, rescuers said. Dozens of migrants likely died when their boat sank in a storm.

Rescue yacht saves child, believed to be from Sierra Leone, who was on boat carrying 45 people in Mediterranean

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was the only person rescued after a migrant boat believed to have 45 people on board sank.

The unnamed girl, from Sierra Leone, told them she had set off with another 44 people from Sfax in Tunisia. Their boat had sunk and all the other migrants were presumed dead. Thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe die during the treacherous journey in the Mediterranean every year.