About 400 people reach out to Alarm Phone over three days

Between 23 to 25 May, several hundred people have tried to escape from the war and torture camps in Libya. Alarm Phone was alerted to five boats in total, carrying about 400 people on board.

Although there is no official confirmation on the fate of many of these boats, we believe that one of these boats was rescued to Europe, while several were intercepted and returned to war and torture in Libya.

There is still no clarity on the fate of several other boats. In one of those intercepted by the so-called Libyan coastguards and returned to Libya, two men of Sudanese nationality were found dead.

Several groups that left from Tunisia, Algeria and Libya and that did not reach out to Alarm Phone were intercepted. In one case, one person died while 6-8 are feared missing. Some boats have also reached Europe autonomously, reaching Lampedusa, Agrigento, Linosa, Sardinia.

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🆘️ 1 person in need of assistance near Zvezdets, #Bulgaria!

We cannot reach them, but relatives informed us about a man who is stuck in the forest. We informed #Bulgarian authorities, who told us that they were searching for the missing person.

🆘in Central Med - 22 people in distress south of #Lampedusa! This group needs urgent help! According to relatives, the people have been at sea for 3 days & are drifting. The responsible European authorities were alerted last night, but are not intervening. This is unacceptable!

Will there be any consequences of this violent incident in the Central Med? The video we obtained shows a Tareq Ben Ziad militia asset chasing after the escaping boat with vulnerable people on board. Shots fired in the SAR zone of #Malta on 12 OCT severely injured several people.

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