一艘载有45人的移民船沉没后，一名勇敢的塞拉利昂11岁女孩在地中海获救，她在三天后幸存下来。

这个女孩被发现时紧紧抓住两个轮胎内胎。她是意大利兰佩杜萨岛附近沉船事故的唯一幸存者。这艘船从突尼斯中部海岸的港口城市斯法克斯出发，但遭遇强烈风暴导致倾覆。

这名女孩是在凌晨3点20分左右被德国救援船Trotamar III的船员偶然发现的，该船由非营利组织Compass Collective运营。

据Compass Collective报道，尽管船的发动机发出了噪音，但船员们还是听到了孩子的哭声。船长Matthias Wiedenlübbert称这是一个非同寻常的巧合。

船员们立即采取行动营救她，并通知了罗马的救援控制中心。

她因体温过低被移交给兰佩杜萨岛的救援服务机构接受治疗，但神志清醒，反应灵敏。这名女孩告诉救援人员，她曾与水中的其他幸存者有过接触，但在获救前两天就失去了联系。

她没有食物和水了。救援人员寻找更多的幸存者，但没有找到任何人，因为海浪超过8英尺高的风暴使其他人不太可能幸存下来。

根据国际移民组织（IOM）的数据，地中海中部是世界上最危险的移民路线之一，自2014年以来，已有30900多人死亡或失踪。

根据意大利政府的数据，仅今年一年，就有超过6.4万名移民在这条路线上获救，其中包括近8000名无人陪伴的未成年人。

自2023年8月开始运营以来，“Compass Collective”已经救助了1653名海上遇险人员。船员Katja Tempel说，即使在暴风雨期间，人们也被迫使用不安全的移民路线。

联合国儿童基金会驻意大利负责人尼古拉·德尔·阿西普雷特（Nicola Dell'Arciprete）敦促为弱势移民提供更安全的路线和更好的保护。他称这一事件提醒人们注意地中海地区正在发生的人道主义危机，那里每天都有生命逝去。

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英文原文

A brave 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued after she survived three days in the Mediterranean Sea, after the sinking of a migrant boat carrying 45 people.



The girl was found clinging on two tyre inner tubes.  She was the only survivor of the shipwreck near Italy’s Lampedusa island.  The vessel departed from Sfax, a port city on Tunicia’s central coast, but encountered severe storms that caused it to capsize.



The girl was found by chance at around 3:20 a.m. by the crew of the German rescue ship Trotamar III, operated by the non-profit organisation, Compass Collective.



According to Compass Collective, the crew heard the child’s cries despite the noise of the ship’s engine.  The skipper, Matthias Wiedenlübbert, described it as an extraordinary coincidence.



The crew immediately manoeuvred to save her and alerted the rescue control centre in Rome.



She was handed over to rescue services in Lampedusa for medical care, suffering from hypothermia but was alert and responsive.  The girl told the rescuers that she had been in contact with other survivors in the water but lost sight of them two days before her rescue.



She was left with no food and water.  The rescue crew searched for more survivors but couldn’t find anyone, as the storm, with waves over eight feet high, made it unlikely for others to survive.



The central Mediterranean Sea is one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes, with over 30,900 deaths or disappearances reported since 2014, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).



This year alone, more than 64,000 migrants have been rescued on this route, including nearly 8,000 unaccompanied minors, according to Italian government data.



Since its operations began in August 2023, the Compass Collective has rescued 1,653 people in distress at sea.  Crew member Katja Tempel said that people are forced to use unsafe migration routes even during storms.



Nicola Dell’Arciprete, head of UNICEF in Italy has urged for safer routes and better protections for vulnerable migrants.  He described the incident as a reminder of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, where lives are lost every day.

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