Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 5th of August 2019Case name: 2019_08_05-AEG554
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 Monday, 5th of August 2019, the Alarm Phone was alerted at 7.51am CEST to a boat carrying 35 people south of Lesvos/Greece. When we spoke to the migrant travellers at 7.55am, they were screaming for help. They had already reached Greek waters. We informed the Greek coastguards at 8am and passed on all information we had gathered. We also send them an updated GPS position of the boat about 20 minutes later. The Greek authorities said they would reach the distressed boat soon. At 8.44am, the rescue of the boat was confirmed.
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