Girl, 4, sailed from Tunisia to Sicily on migrant boat without parents
by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Marta Bellingreri in from on (#65C39)
Girl became separated from parents and disembarked on island of Lampedusa after 26 hours at sea
A four-year-old girl who was separated from her parents as they tried to board a migrant boat from Tunisia to Italy was forced to make the journey across the Mediterranean without them.
The girl, referred to as Linda by Italian authorities, disembarked on the island of Lampedusa on 17 October after 26 hours at sea on a crowded wooden boat carrying a further 70 asylum seekers from Tunisia.
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