Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 2nd February 2024Case name: 2024_02_02-CM025
Situation: 56 travellers in distress in the Central Med, returned to the Libyan coast by themselves.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Friday the 2nd of February 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of 56 travellers, including 10 women and four children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Zawiya the previous evening on a green rubber boat. They told us that the weather was bad and that they had run out of fuel. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. In addition, we relayed the information to a nearby merchant vessel, urging them to intervene in accordance with international maritime law. We stayed in contact with the travellers and forwarded their updated positions to the authorities as frequently as possible. In the early hours of the morning of the 3rd of February, we lost contact to the boat. In the evening, we learned from a relative that the travellers had managed to return to the coast of Libya by themselves and that they were all in good health.
Tweets about the case: https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1753725684394918201?s=09
https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1753841665301746141?s=08 https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1754036146886046158?s=09
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