Since Sunday, 12 migrants are missing in the open sea between Morocco and Spain

December 28, 2018

Credits: DW/Y. Gostoli

Since Sunday, December 23, the Alarm Phone's telephone platform has lost contact with a makeshift boat carrying 12 migrants, including a woman, from Morocco to Spain. Spanish rescuers couldn't event find the track of this ship.

UPDATE: STILL MISSING! Boat with 12ppl in WM (11men/1woman) probably still at sea for more than 90 hours!
Earlier confirmation given by @salvamentogob this afternoon was wrong. We demand @salvamentogob to use all their assets to save these lives

— Alarm Phone (@alarm_phone) 26 dicembre 2018

"We have little hope to find them alive, it would be a miracle". The Alarm Phone platform is worried about the fate of 12 migrants - including a woman - from sub-Saharan Africa, who went missing in the Mediterranean sea this weekend while trying to reach Spain on a makeshift boat.