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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🆘 ~51 lives at risk in the Central Mediterranean! Alarm Phone was alerted to a group fleeing #Tunisia by boat. We do not have their exact location. Because of bad weather, they are at severe risk. We've informed #Italy and #Tunisia that they need immediate rescue!

🆘 25 personnes en détresse dans la #MéditerranéeOccidentale. Elles ont quitté #Boumerdes il y a 5 jours avec une femme enceinte à bord. Nous sommes inquiet.e.s pour leur vie et exigeons une mission de recherche et de sauvetage immédiate ! #NeLesLaissezPasSeNoyer!

🆘️Where are they? We were alerted to 12 people who left Boumerdes, #Algeria, on January 4. Since then, there are no news from them. @Salvamentogob is alerted. We hope they will be found alive!

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