Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 1st of June 2019Case name: 2019_06_01-AEG535
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted migrant groups in distress in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On the 1st of June 2019, at 3.37am CEST, the Alarm Phone was alerted by a contact person to a boat in distress, carrying 21 people. Via the contact person we received the GPS position off the people on board and the information that their engine had stopped working. They had intended to move to Kos but were stuck in Turkish waters. We tried to contact the boat but were unable to reach them. At 4.15am, the contact person said that he believed the people had been found by the Turkish coastguards. At 4.40am we spoke to the Turkish coastguards and at 5.21am they confirmed that they had rescued a boat with 21 people. We shortly after compared the phone numbers of the travellers and could confirm that this was the boat in question.
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