Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 17th June 2024Case name: 2024_06_17-CM179
Situation: 45 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 Monday the 17th of June 2024 just before midnight, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 45 travellers, including eight women, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Sfax on the 16th at around 3am on an iron boat. We were not able to reach the travellers and did not know their GPS position. However, we immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. Later, we learned that a boat matching the description we had received had arrived to Lampedusa.
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