<b>Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 22nd of October 2020</b> <i>Case name</i>: 20201022-WM511 <i>Situation</i>: One boat in distress on their way to Spain; rescued and brought to Fuertaventura <i>Place of incident</i>: Western Mediterranean <i>Summary of the case</i>: On Tursday the 22nd of October at 21.00 CET the Alarm Phone shift team was called by a relative who informed us about a group of 61 travellers who had set off from Western Sahara heading towards the Canary Islands at 04.30 CET the same morning. The relative had last had contact to the boat at around midday. Throughout the night we tried to reach the travellers many times without success. At 09.30 the following morning we passed on the information we had to SM. They asked us to call back 30 minutes later. When we did so, they informed us that they were carrying out a rescue operation of a boat that could belong to this group of travellers. At 11.40 SM confirmed that they had rescued the travellers, and that they would be brought to the south of Fuertaventura.

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