Sierra Leone: Child Found Floating Alone In The Sea, Wearing A Life Jacket Made Of Tyre Tubes, After 44 Other Passengers On Her Boat Believed To Have Drowned

Statement by Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe

“An 11-year-old girl was rescued yesterday from a shipwreck off the coast of Italy’s Lampedusa. All 44 other people on board, including women and children, are believed to have drowned.

“The child was found floating in the water, alone, wearing a life jacket and clinging to two tyre tubes, in the middle of the night. She had no drinking water or…