Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 14th of January 2024
Case name: 2024_01_14-EASTERN MED - 016
Situation: 23 people in distress in Lesvos brought to a reception center after being lost during the night
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Eastern Med

Summary of the Case:

In the afternoon of the 14th of January, Alarm Phone was alerted by a concerned relative about a group of 23 people (4 women, 11 children and 8 men) who had arrived in Lesvos and found themselves in distress. We established direct contact to the the people, who reported that many of them were suffering from the cold and some of the children were sick.
We alerted authorities at 17:13 CET.
Later, the people reported that the authorities came and transferred a part of the group (13 people), but the remaining 10 were still in need of help and lost in the mountain. They reported that they were freezing and some of them need medical attention due to burn injuries.
We send another email to authorities at 20:00 CET and tried to mobilise them to assist the people during the night. It was only at 8:00 CET next day that we got informed by MSF that their team had found the missing people missing and helped them to get to the reception center.

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