Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 6th July 2024Case name: 2024_07_06-CM196
Situation: 33 travellers in distress in the Central Med, assisted by Nadir, then rescued to Lampedusa by the Italian coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Saturday the 6th of July 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted to a group of 33 travellers, including four women and three children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from Sabratha, Libya, around midnight the previous day on a rubber boat. They told us that they had no more fuel left and that one person on boat was disabled and now unable to move. 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 continued to pass on their updated positions to authorities. Later, we learned that the NGO vessel Nadir had found the boat and accompanied the travellers until they were rescued by the Italian coastguard and brought to Lampedusa.
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