Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 8th March 2024Case name: 2024_03_08-CM055
Situation: 124 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 8th of March 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 124 travellers, including 10-15 children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Sabratha on a blue wooden boat. 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 relayed their updated positions to the authorities as often as possible. They were getting increasingly worried as the weather was getting worse and they were low on fuel. From their positions however, we could see that they were getting closer and closer to Lampedusa. In our last call, they told us that they could see lights ahead. We then lost contact to the travellers. The following day we learned that a group matching the description the travellers had given us had arrived to Lampedusa.
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