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Orphaned Nigerian baby girl survives shipwreck

26 maggio 2016 | 17.55
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Orphaned Nigerian baby girl survives shipwreck

A nine-month orphaned Nigerian girl reached the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa after her pregnant mother died of burns during their Mediterranean crossing aboard a migrant boat that sank, reports said Thursday.

Requests have flooded in from all over Italy and other countries to foster or adopt the baby, named Favour, who will on Thursday be taken into the care of social services in the Sicilian capital, Palermo.

Favour was dehydrated when Italian coastguard brought her to Lampedusa on Wednesday and has a cold, but is otherwise well, Lampedusa's doctor Pietro Bartolo told Adnkronos.

Twenty other migrants rescued with Favour had sustained fuel burns, Bartolo said.

"Six of these people had very bad burns and we have transferred them to Palermo," Bartolo stated.

Before Flavour's mother died, she handed the baby to another female passenger on the boat who took care of Favour until they reached Lampedusa, Bartolo said.

Bartolo featured in prize-winning documentary Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea), which won this year's Berlin Film Festival. The documentary looks at the lives of residents and migrants on Lampedusa, where tens of thousands of migrants have landed in recent years and 366 died in a shipwreck in 2013.

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