Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – January 01th 2022Case name: 2022_01_01-ATL001
Situation: 35 people left from Tarfaya, rescued to the Canary Islands
WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic
Summary of Case: In the early morning of January 1st Alarm Phone was called by relatives alerting us to a group of 35 travellers, including 10 women, 21 men and 4 children, who had departed from Tarfaya, Morocco in the night of December 31st. We were not able to establish contact with the boat for the whole time. At 16:00CET we informed the Spanish Search and Rescue organisation Salvamento Marítimo (SM) Las Palmas about the boat. Later on SM informed us that they are conducting a search and rescue operation, but were not able to locate the rubber boat. Shortly after midnight we called SM and they informed us that they had rescued the travellers.
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