29/06: 110 travellers from Tripoli rescued to Lampedusa

30.06.2021 / 01:54 / Central Mediterranean Sea

Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 29th June 2021
Case name: 2021_06_29-CM487
Situation: 110 travellers from Tripoli were probably rescued to Lampedusa
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: At 17:50h CEST of Tuesday the 29th of June, the Alarm Phone was called by a boat in distress carrying approximately 110 people of which 10 women and 3 children. We were told that a baby had died on board. The boat was blue and wooden, it had departed from Tripoli and the motor was not working properly. At 18:05h our shift team alerted the Italian and Maltese coastguard via email, passing on all the information we had, including GPS position. At 19:28h we were informed that the boat had been spotted by Seawatch’s search aircraft, Seabird. During the rest of the night we continued to keep contact with the travellers, they were really exhausted and scared as the weather was not good. At 03:50h in the morning we lost contact with them. While the following morning we found out about a ship wreak 5 miles of Lampedusa, it turned out that this was not “our” boat. We believe that the travellers of this case were rescued to Lampedusa.

Twitter Thread

29/06
20:28: https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1409941766732722179
21:40 https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1409960030934294529

30/06
08:05 https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1410116981286752257
13:15 https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1410195365165514754

Last update: 02:37 Jan 25, 2022

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