Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 1st July 2024Case name: 2024_07_01-CM195
Situation: 26 travellers in distress in the Central Med, picked up by the Tunisian coastguard and brought to Sfax.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Monday the 1st of July 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of 26 travellers, including nine women and two children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Zuwara, Libya, on a black rubber boat and told us that they had no drinking water left and that water was entering their 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 passed on their updated positions to authorities as often as possible. In the evening, we lost contact to the travellers. Later, we learned that the travellers had been found by the Tunisian coastguard and brought to Sfax.
Tweets about the case:
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