Coast Guard rescued on Friday a 18-year-old girl with paraplegia along with 42 other refugees, mostly Syrian, in the sea region off the coasts of Mytilene, Lesvos island.

The officers also managed to collect the girl’s sinking wheelchair, a necessary tool in order for the girl to continue her trip.

Coast Guard was informed early in the morning that a boat with migrants and refugees was adrift. A patrol vessel rushed immediately to the spot and found the boat with 42 people, among them 11 women and 3 children.

The officers started collecting the people that have jumped to the water while some crew members collected the disabled girl from the sinking boat.

“We show her agony, her eyes were turned towards the end of the boat, we saw a wheelchair ready to sink. We grabbed it and took it on the boat,” said a member of the coast guard vessel.

The girl was accompanied by her mother and her sister.