Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 31st of December 2018Case name: 2018_12_31-AEG476
Situation: 40 people stranded on Farmakonisi island, rescued to Greece
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Cases:
On Monday, 31st of December, at 5:30am CET, our shift team has been alerted to a group of 40 travellers that had stranded on Farmakonisi island. The group (consisting of 33 men, 3 women and 4 children) had been landing without major difficulties. At 5:40am we alerted the Greek coastguard. They promised to send a rescue boat to the group. We informed the travellers and sent an email to the respective authorities concerning the alert. We also informed UNHCR Greece about the group. At 9:47am we called the Greek Coast Guard again that confirmed the rescue of the travellers as well as of a second group on the island (75 people in total).
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