Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 23rd of May 2019Case name: 2019_05_23-CM162
Situation: boat carrying 20 people intercepted and taken back to Libya
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the Case: At 12:44pm CEST on Thursay the 23rd of May 2019 the Alarm phone shift team was alerted to a boat in distress carrying 90 people. They told us that they had seen a white aircraft 15 minutes prior, and also sent us their GPS position which we passed on to the Italian coastguard and to Colibri. At 4:30pm we learned that the boat had partially deflated and people were in the water. The Libyan authorities rescued the people from the water and returned them to Tripoli. The Italian navy, whose ship Bettica was just a few kilometers away, confirmed this.
Last update: 18:05 Jul 02, 2019
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