Girl, 11, rescued in Med after three days clinging to tyre tubes

The girl from Sierra Leone said all the 44 migrants on board had died in the storms and high waves.

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Rescuers from non-governmental organisation Compass Collective said they were on their way to another emergency when they heard her calls for help.

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.

Compass Collective spokeswoman Katja Tempel told the BBC that rescuers on board the Trotamar III vessel had found the young Sierra Leonean migrant wearing a simple life jacket and two tyre inner tubes around her waist at around 03:20 (02:20 GMT) on Wednesday.

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