Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 03rd July 2021
Case name: 2021_07_03-CM493
Situation: A boat carrying 106 travellers from Zuwara shipwrecked. Many died and some were rescued to Tunisia.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean Sea

Summary of the Case:
In the evening of Saturday the 3rd of July the Alarm Phone was called by a worried relative of a traveller who had departed in the very early morning from Zuwarah, Libya. The boat was a yellow wooden boat and was carrying 106 travellers including 2 women, 15 minors and 1 baby. The relative had lost contact to the boat soon after it departed and did not have a GPS position. During the night and the following day our shift team kept contact with the relative and constantly tried to call the travellers directly, however their satellite phone was always not reachable. The afternoon of the following day the relative told us that he had spoken to his dear one who told him that there had been a shipwreck where many people had died, including the baby. The survivors were brought to Tunisia. At 20:45h CEST we emailed authorities with all the information we had about this case, asking for further information. We never received further updates on what happened. We are sad and angry about these lives lost and our thoughts are with the victims’ families and friends.