Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 16th February 2024Case name: 2024_02_16-CM041
Situation: Around 50 travellers in distress in the Central Med, arrived 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 to a group of around 50 travellers in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. They told us that there were elderly people onboard and that they were sick and in need of medical assistance. We managed to get their GPS position and immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. We stayed in contact with the travellers and forwarded their updated positions to the authorities as often as possible. The following day we learned that the travellers had arrived to Lampedusa.
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