Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 1st of January 2022Case name: 2022_01_01-AEG851
Situation: 36 travellers rescued by Turkish Coastguard near Chios after difficult trip, one person unconscious
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
Late in the evening of the 1st of January, Alarm Phone received a message from a worried relative, alerting us to a group of 36 people is distress who had departed from Turkey going towards Chios, Greece. The relative related that the people on the boat were in a bad situation and needed help. We alerted the Turkish Coastguard at 23:48 CET, they told us they had already been alerted of the situation and are in the process of rescuing the group. Later that night we managed to get in touch with one of the travellers who recounted that the trip was very difficult, that one woman ended up unconscious, and that the Turkish authorities refused to give a change of clothes to those in need.
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