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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🆘17 personnes en détresse en #MéditerranéeOccidentale. Elles ont quitté #Mostaganem #Algérie, le 27 octobre, depuis nous n’avons pas de nouvelles. @Salvamentogob est alerté le 30 octobre, mais ils ne les ont toujours pas retrouvées. On espère qu'elles seront retrouvées vivantes!

🆘 17 people in distress in the #WesternMed. They left #Mostaganem, #Algeria on 27 October, since then there are no news from them. We alerted @Salvamentogob on 30 October but they still haven’t found them. We hope they'll be found alive!

🆘 14 personnes en détresse en #MéditerranéeOccidentale. Des proches nous ont signalé ce groupe qui est parti de #Mostaganem, #Algérie, le 27 octobre. Ni nous ni leurs proches n'arrivons à les joindre. @Salvamentogob a été alerté et on espère qu'ils vont les retrouver.