Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 20th January 2022Case name: 2022_01_20-CM012
Situation: 67 travellers in distress in the Central Med, rescued by NGO vessel Geo Barents of Doctors without Borders.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 20th of January 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a group of 67 travellers, including five women and two children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Libya on a black wooden boat, and told us that they had ran out of fuel and food. They had no life saving equipment onboard. Several of the travellers were reported to be injured or sick. We managed to get their GPS position, and relayed all the information we had to the relevant rescue authorities. We stayed in contact with the travellers and forwarded their updated positions to the authorities when possible. We later learned that the travellers had been rescued by the NGO vessel Geo Barents operated by Doctors without Borders.
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