Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 24th September 2024Case name: 2024_09_24-ATL024
Situation: 61 travellers in distress in the Atlantic, only four survived after the boat shipwrecked, the others remain missing.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Atlantic Ocean
Summary of the case: On Tuesday the 24th of September 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 61 travellers, including 15 women and two children, in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. The travellers had left from Tan Tan in the early morning on the 22nd of September on a rubber boat. We were not able to reach the boat and did not know their GPS position. However, we immediately alerted the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo, relaying all the information we had. Later, we learned from a survivor that the boat had shipwrecked. To our knowledge, four travellers survived the shipwreck. Two of them were transferred directly to the hospital in Laayoune. The other travellers remain missing. All our thoughts and solidarity are with the families and friends who are now stuck in limbo with no clarity about their loved ones, as well as with the survivors who had to endure this traumatic experience.
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