Eleven-year-old from Sierra Leone survives three days at sea

Picture: AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said on Wednesday.

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.