Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 6th February 2024Case name: 2024_02_06-CM032
Situation: Around 120 travellers in distress in the Central Med, intercepted and returned to Libya by the so-called Libyan coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Tuesday the 6th of February 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of around 120 travellers, half of them women, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Sabratha on a rubber boat. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. Later, we learned that the travellers had been intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguard and returned to Libya.
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