Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 16th February 2024Case name: 2024_02_16-CM040
Situation: 47 travellers in distress in the Central Med, rescued to Lampedusa.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Friday the 16th of February 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 47 travellers in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Libya, close to the Tunisian border on a blue wooden boat the day before. The relative gave us their GPS position, and we immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. The following day we learned that the travellers had been rescued and brought to Lampedusa.
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