Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 21st February 2022Case name: 2022_02_21-CM040
Situation: Around 200 travellers in distress in the Central Med, one died from a seizure while the rest were rescued by the Italian coastguard after four days at sea.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Monday the 21st of February 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of around 200 travellers in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Tobruk, Libya, in the late evening of the 17th of February. The relative informed us that one of the travellers had died from a seizure during the journey. We were not able to reach the boat directly, and the relative had also lost contact to the boat the day before. Weather in the region was getting increasingly dangerous, and we therefore feared for the travellers’ safety and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities. However, the authorities refused to give us any information about whether a boat corresponding to this description had been rescued.
The following day, we learned that the boat was rescued by the Italian coastguard. It was confirmed that one traveller had died during the journey.
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