Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 28th July 2022Case name: 2022_07_28-WM037
Situation: 21 travellers in distress in the Alboran, intercepted and brought back to Morocco.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 28th of July 2022 just before midnight, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 21 travellers, all men, in distress in the Alboran Sea. The travellers had left from around Temsamane the same morning on a grey rubber boat and were heading towards Motril. The relative had lost contact to the travellers at 13.00 CEST and we were also not able to establish direct contact to the boat. We alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo, forwarding all the information we had. Soon after, Salvamento confirmed to us on the phone that rescue efforts were ongoing and we could see that one of their aircrafts was deployed in the area.
The following evening, however, we learned from the relative that the travellers had been intercepted and brought back to Morocco.
Last update: 11:56 Aug 07, 2023
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