27/12: 13 people (including 1 woman) left from Achakar and rescued to Spain
Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 27th of December 2018Case name: 2018_12_27-WM361
Situation: 13 people (including 1 woman) left from Achakar and rescued to Spain
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: At 10:29am CET on Thursday the 27th of December the Alarmphone shift team were alerted to a boat carrying 13 people (including 1 woman) who had left at 2:30am from Achakar. We were unable to make contact with the boat from any of the phone numbers provided to us. At 11:47am our contact person informed us that the boat was close to a cargo ship and sent a picture. We tracked the cargo ship. At 2:25pm we finally made contact with the boat. They were on a red ship, most likely to be Spanish Search and Rescue Organisation Salvamento Maritimo (SM), being rescued to Spain.
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