Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 26th of April 2019Case name: 2019_04_26-AEG517
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to a boat in distress in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Friday the 26th of April 2019, the Alarm Phone was alerted at 3.05pm CEST to a group of people stranded on Nimos Island. The people were from Syria, Palestine and Iraq. They were 14 in total, including 2 women and 2 children. We spoke to them at 3.09pm and they told us that they had reached the island per boat 2-3 hours before. They were unable to move away from where they had landed, due to the rocky area. At 3.23pm we informed the Greek coastguards. At 4.21pm, the group informed us that a rescue operation was taking place. A minute later also the Greek coastguards confirmed that a rescue was being carried out. They confirmed that the people would be brought to Symi Island.
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