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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🆘15 personnes disparues en #MéditerranéeOccidentale. Elles ont quitté Ain Taïa, en #Algérie, le 18 juillet. @Salvamentogob a été alerté mais n'a aucune nouvelle. Nous demandons des opérations de recherche et de sauvetage immédiates!

🆘15 people missing in the #WesternMed. They left from Ain Taïa, #Algeria, on July 18. @Salvamentogob is alerted but has no news. We ask for immediate search and rescue of these people!

🆘 21 lives at risk in the Central #Mediterranean!

We were alerted to 21 people on a boat in distress on the way to Italy. They say their engine does not work any more. The merchant vessel #VALLESINA is close to the boat. Rescue to a safe place is needed!

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