Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 18th of January 2019Case name: 2019_01_18-AEG479
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to a group of travellers on Farmakonisi and one missing person, who sadly was later found dead.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Friday 18th of January at 4am CET our shift team was alerted to a group of around 53 travellers, including 7 women and 10 children, who had just landed on the Greek island Farmakonisi. Several people were injured, and one person fell overboard shortly before the boat arrived to the island. At 4:07am we alerted the Greek authorities and passed on the location of the group. At 4:32am Leros port authority informed us that there were two groups of travellers stranded on Farmakonisi and confirmed that they would bring all the travellers to Leros. For a while it remained unclear if the missing person from the boat was still in the sea, and the Greek coast guard initiated a search and rescue operation. Sadly, at 2pm the Greek coastguard confirmed that they have found the body of a dead man.
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