Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 17th January 2024Case name: 2024_01_17-CM013
Situation: 43 travellers in distress in the Central Med, rescued by the Italian coastguard and brought to Lampedusa.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Wednesday the 17th of January 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 43 travellers, including five women and six men, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Zuwara on a blue wooden boat around 24 hours earlier. We managed to reach the travellers and got their GPS position. They also told us that they had no life vests and that the waves were high and the wind strong, putting them at great risk. We then immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. We stayed in contact with the travellers and passed on their updated positions to authorities as often as possible. We later learned that the travellers were rescued by the Italian coastguard and brought to Lampedusa.
Tweets about the case:
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