Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 28th of June 2019Case name: 2019_06_28-AEG541
Situation: Boat towards Alexandroupoli, back to Turkey
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean
Summary of the Case: On the 28th of June at 1:05pm CEST the Alarm phone shift team was alerted to a rubber boat near to Alexandroupoli carrying 35 people, who had left from Turkey an hour earlier. After receiving a GPS position we contacted the Greek coastguard at 1.30pm. The Greek coatguard searched for the boat, but couldn’t find it. They called us many times for GPS updates but we could not establish any contact with the travellers. At 11:52pm the Greek coastguard told us that the Turkish coastguard let them know that they had rescued some people near the same position. Initially the Turkish coastguard denied to us having rescued anyone in that area, but at 1:50pm the next day they confirmed that they had indeed rescued a boat with 43 travellers close to the same position.
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