Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 18th January 2024Case name: 2024_01_18-CM016
Situation: 45 travellers in distress in the Central Med, intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Thursday the 18th of January 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a group of 45 travellers, including six children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Abu Kammash at around midday on a blue wooden boat. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. In the early evening we learned that the travellers had been intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard.
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