<b>Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 4th of November 2020</b> <i>Case name</i>: 20201104-CM323 <i>Situation</i>: 82 people started from Zawiya, Libya, and reached Lampedusa <i>Status of WTM Investigation</i>: concluded <i>Place of Incident</i>: Central Mediterranean <i>Summary of the Case:</i> On 4th of November 2020 at 23:30h CET the Alarm Phone was called by a satellite phone. The following information was given by the travellers: 82 people, among them 6 women and 2 children started in Zawiya 3 days ago in a gray rubber boat. The engine was still working. They passed also a GPS position which was sent with all other information at 23:58h via email to the competent authorities. On 5th November at 00:07h CET the travellers called again and passed another GPS position which was nearly the same then the one before. They added that the engine now stops working from time to time. The new information was sent via email to Maltese and Italian coast guards who where called afterwards to confirm the reception of the email. At 02:50h the travellers reported another GPS position which is now only 10 nm from Lampedusa. An email and phone call to MRCC Rome followed. At 03:12h the travellers shouted for help and the shift team tried to explain that they should call Italy by themselves. The last GPS position was given at 03:52h, afterwards the contact to the people on board broke. At 14:27h Alarm Phone called MRCC Rome but they refused to give any information. Only through friends on Lampedusa the shift team got to know that the people landed on the island.

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