Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 22nd January 2022Case name: 2022_01_22-CM016
Situation: Around 80 travellers in distress in the Central Med, probably rescued by the Italian coastguard and brought to Lampedusa.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 22nd of January 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of around 80 travellers, including several women and children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Zuwara on Thursday night on a wooden boat. We managed to reach the travellers and got their GPS position. We immediately relayed all the information we had to the relevant rescue authorities. We stayed in contact with the travellers and updated the authorities with their GPS position when possible. Eventually, we lost contact to the boat. In the early morning we learned that a boat matching the description we had been given was being rescued by the Italian coastguard and would be brought to Lampedusa.
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