Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 8th of September 2020 Case name: 2020_09_08-WM480
Situation: 45 people probably arrived on Fuerteventura.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary of the Case:
In the evening of 8 September we were contacted by relatives of people on a boat which had departed from Laayoune heading for the Canary Islands. There was some confusion around the numbers, but it was clear that there were about 45 people on board. The relatives gave us the numbers of some of the people on the boat. As they were not carrying a satellite phone, we were not able to reach the travellers. The distance between the Canary Islands and the mainland is too vast for there to be mobile reception on the whole journey. We informed the authorities and kept in touch with them throughout the night and the next morning.
Around about 11:00 on 9 September reports came in of arrivals to the Canaries. We kept in touch with the relatives throughout the day, and by the evening we were very confident that the boat had arrived to Fuerteventura. It had been carrying 45 people, including two women and one child. Boza, welcome to Europe.
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