The rain, which has swept across several cities in Libya’s north-east, is the result of a very strong low-pressure system that brought catastrophic flooding to Greece last week and moved into the Mediterranean before developing into a tropical-like cyclone known as a medicane. We are praying for better things,” he said on Tuesday. “My wife Areej’s sister and her husband both passed away. We are all terrified,” she said.Įmad Milad, a resident of Tobrok, said eight of his relatives died in the flooding in Derna. It is very terrifying watching the videos coming out of Derna. It seems all communications are down and I don’t know if they are alive at this point. Relatives of people who lived in the destroyed city of Derna told CNN they were terrified after seeing videos of the flooding, with no word from their family members.Īyah, a Palestinian woman with cousins in Derna, said she has been unable to reach them since the floods. Overturned cars lay among other debris caused by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. People are working at the moment to collect the rotting bodies,” said Anas Barghathy, a doctor currently volunteering in Derna.
“There are no first-hand emergency services. Hospitals in Derna are no longer operable and the morgues are full, said Osama Aly, an Emergency and Ambulance service spokesperson.ĭead bodies have been left outside the morgues on the sidewalks, he told CNN. Whole neighborhoods are believed to have been washed away in the city, according to authorities. He called the situation “catastrophic,” when he toured the city on Monday. In the eastern city of Derna, which has seen the worst of the devastation, as many as 6,000 people remain missing, Othman Abduljalil, health minister in Libya’s eastern administration, told Libya’s Almasar TV. Of those who were killed, at least 145 were Egyptian, officials in the northeastern city of Tobruk, in Libya, said on Tuesday. CNN has not been able to independently verify the number of deaths or those missing. “The death toll is huge,” she said.Īt least 5,300 people are thought dead, said the interior ministry of Libya’s eastern government on Tuesday, state media LANA reported. Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation in Libya, gave the numbers of missing people during a briefing to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. More than 5,000 people are presumed dead and 10,000 missing after heavy rains in northeastern Libya caused two dams to collapse, surging more water into already inundated areas.
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