19/04: One distress case in the Aegean, near Lesvos
Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 19th of April 2016Case name: 2016_04_19-AEG251
Situation: One distress case in the Aegean, near Lesvos
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:On Tuesday, the 19th of April 2016, the Alarm Phone was alerted to one distress case in the Aegean Sea. At 1:12am, we received an alert via WhatsApp about a rubber boat in urgent distress near Lesvos in Greek territorial waters. We immediately informed the Greek Coastguard about the case. They promised to send help. However, a few minutes later our contact person told us that the boat had been picked up already by a NATO ship and that the travellers would be brought to Greece. On Tuesday evening at 6:08pm, we had contact with the travellers and they confirmed that they were on Lesvos and that a military ship had brought them there.
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