Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations 11th August 2024Case name: 2024_08_11-CM287
Situation: 16 travellers in distress in the Central Med, rescued by NGO vessel Open Arms.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Central Mediterranean
Summary of the case: On Sunday the 11th of August 2024, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 16 travellers, including three women and three children, in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea. They were travelling on a fiberglass boat and were running out of fuel. Through the relative we got their GPS position. We then immediately alerted the relevant search and rescue authorities, relaying all the information we had. Later we learned that the travellers had been rescued by the NGO vessel Open Arms and brought to Lampedusa.
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