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Development WTM site29/08: 23 people started from Boujdour to Canary islands, rescued to Spain
30.08.2019 / 15:07 / Western Mediterranean Sea, Canary Islands
Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 29th of August 2019
Case name: 2019_08_29-WM413
Situation: 23 travellers lost on their way to the Canary islands
Status of WTM Investigation: concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On Thursday of 29th of August the Alarm Phone was called at 6pm CEST. The shiftteam learned that a Pirog started at 5am CEST with 23 people onboard, 7 of them were women and 3 of them children. It wasn‘t possible to establish contact to the boat. As the weather condition were very badly the shiftteam decided to call Salvamento Marítimo (SM). The officer told they knew about a boat with 30 people in the area and were looking for it. The Alarm Phone also alerted the Morrocan authorities to the case at 07:43pm CEST. Later they confirmed also a Search and Rescue operation for the boat. On 30th of August we learned that the SAR operation stopped during the night, but is said to be ongoing when the Alarm Phone called 9:30am CEST Salvamento Marítimo in Madrid and some minutes later through the authorities in Rabat. The shiftteam couldn‘t verify this information. Since the beginning all attempts to reach the people were unsuccesful. The next 11 hours the Alarm Phone tried hard to gather any information about possible rescues or ship wrecks and finally published a tweet around 9pm CEST stating that 23 people went missing. In the morning of 31st of August the shiftteam called to the authorities in Spain and Morroco which stated to be searching with an aircraft. The helicopter searched until 3:30pm CEST and Salvamento Marítimo in Las Palmas informed about a possible new operation the next day. When the Alarm Phone called the next time on 1st of September at 10:17am CEST they refused to give information, also the Press office refused to give information to NGOs and later on they stated to not be working on sundays. In the afternoon of that day we learned about a boza to the Canary islands which raised our hope that the people arrived safely. We were able only on September 10 to get hold of the migrant travellers – they had all survived and were brought by a Turkish ship to the Canary Islands.
Case name: 2019_08_29-WM413
Situation: 23 travellers lost on their way to the Canary islands
Status of WTM Investigation: concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On Thursday of 29th of August the Alarm Phone was called at 6pm CEST. The shiftteam learned that a Pirog started at 5am CEST with 23 people onboard, 7 of them were women and 3 of them children. It wasn‘t possible to establish contact to the boat. As the weather condition were very badly the shiftteam decided to call Salvamento Marítimo (SM). The officer told they knew about a boat with 30 people in the area and were looking for it. The Alarm Phone also alerted the Morrocan authorities to the case at 07:43pm CEST. Later they confirmed also a Search and Rescue operation for the boat. On 30th of August we learned that the SAR operation stopped during the night, but is said to be ongoing when the Alarm Phone called 9:30am CEST Salvamento Marítimo in Madrid and some minutes later through the authorities in Rabat. The shiftteam couldn‘t verify this information. Since the beginning all attempts to reach the people were unsuccesful. The next 11 hours the Alarm Phone tried hard to gather any information about possible rescues or ship wrecks and finally published a tweet around 9pm CEST stating that 23 people went missing. In the morning of 31st of August the shiftteam called to the authorities in Spain and Morroco which stated to be searching with an aircraft. The helicopter searched until 3:30pm CEST and Salvamento Marítimo in Las Palmas informed about a possible new operation the next day. When the Alarm Phone called the next time on 1st of September at 10:17am CEST they refused to give information, also the Press office refused to give information to NGOs and later on they stated to not be working on sundays. In the afternoon of that day we learned about a boza to the Canary islands which raised our hope that the people arrived safely. We were able only on September 10 to get hold of the migrant travellers – they had all survived and were brought by a Turkish ship to the Canary Islands.
Last update: 16:53 Sep 11, 2019
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