<b>Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – November 13th 2020</b> <i>Case name</i>: 2020_11_13-CM330 <i>Situation</i>: 90 people intercepted by the so called Libyan coast guard, two people did not survive. <i>Status of WTM Investigation</i>: Concluded <i>Place of Incident</i>: Central Mediterranean Position : 33.66667, 12.68333 At 12.02 CET November 13th Alarmphone was called by a relative of a person in distress in the Mediterranean. According to the relative, the boat carried 90 people including 20 women and twelve children. When they had lost contact to the boat at 10.00 CET water had started to enter the boat. The caller also relayed a GPS position from earlier the same morning. We passed on the information to authorities via e-mail. Throughout the afternoon we were unable to establish contact to the boat. We tried to contact the so called Libyan coast guard but remained unsuccessful. At 16.25 CET we reached an operator of the so called Libyan coast guard who informed us they had received knowledge of this case from the Italian coast guard some minutes before our call and would head there shortly. Media reports published in the night November 13th / 14th strongly suggest the boat was intercepted by the so called Libyan coast guard and returned to the hell of Libyan detention centres. In the early morning of November 14th a relative of people on the boat called Alarmphone and confirmed this information. They also related the death of two people who had tried to escape Libya on this boat. Twitter Chronology: 13.15 CET https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1327224355676442626?s=09

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