Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – August 1st 2021Case name: 20210801-CM521
Situation16 women, three children, 61 men in a deflating boat, intercepted by so-called Lybian coast-guard
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of Case
In the early afternoon of August 1st Alarm Phone was called by a group of 16 women, three children and 61 men in distress who had departed Tajoura in a rubber boat. The group passed a GPS position to us and urgently requested assistance. We found the position to be in international waters and forwarded the alert to authorities at 12.44 CEST. At 12.50 CEST an operator of the so-called Lybian coast guard informed us they were heading to the position of the people in distress. At 14.15 CEST we learnt that the so-called Lybian cost guard had intercepted the group of 80 travellers.
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