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AlarmPhone worries over safety of distressed migrants
AlarmPhone has expressed concern over the condition of groups of distressed migrants in Tunisia and Algeria border region.
The groups are incommunicado as their mobile phones could not be reached.Worried about their plight, AlarmPhone said: “After being in touch for several days, we lost contact to all the groups in distress in the #Tunisia & #Algeria border region, possibly because their mobile phones batteries ran out. We assume many are still stuck there. Now they can’t even reach out anymore to call for help.
“We urge everyone to continue to pressurise the authorities and international organisations to rescue them! We fear that without intervention, even more people will die there. End this cruel policy of violence, displacement and abandonment!
“At the same time, violent expulsions are continuing. We are in contact with people part of several groups at the border between #Tunisia and #Libya. They were forced there with about 650 people and are unable to escape that borderzone. They are urgently in need of help!”