Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 16th December 2021Case name: 2021_12_16-CM647
Situation: 106 travellers in distress in the Central Med, brought back to Libya.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 16th of December 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a boat in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Onboard were 106 travellers, including 17 women, of which many pregnant, and 11 children. They told us that they had left from Tripolis on a blue wooden boat and that they were adrift and water was entering their boat. We managed to get their position, and immediately forwarded all the information we had to the relevant rescue authorities. We stayed in touch with the travellers, who told us that their situation was getting worse as waves were getting higher. We kept authorities updated whenever we managed to get a new position of the boat. We later found out that the travellers had been intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard and brought back to Libya.
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