Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 20th January 2024Case name: 2024_01_20-CM020
Situation: Around 40 travellers in distress in the Central Med, rescued and brought to Lampedusa.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 20th of January 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team received a direct call from a group of around 40 travellers, including five women, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Zuwara the previous evening on a wooden boat. The travellers told us that water was entering the boat and gave us their GPS position. We then immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. We stayed in contact with the travellers and sent the authorities their updated positions as often as possible. Eventually, we lost contact to the travellers. We later learned that the group had been rescued and brought to Lampedusa.
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