Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 17th November 2021Case name: 2021_11_17-CM630
Situation: 86 travellers in urgent distress in the Central Med, intercepted and brought back to Libya.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Wednesday the 17th of November 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a boat in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea carrying 86 travellers. The connection to the boat was very bad, and it was therefore difficult to obtain the necessary information. From the voices of the travellers, we could tell that the situation was urgent. We managed to get their GPS position, and forwarded the information we had to all relevant rescue authorities. In the late evening, the so-called Libyan coastguard confirmed that they had intercepted a boat with 86 travellers in the position we had forwarded.
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