Catastrophic flood hits Libya-3,000 dead and above 10,000 believed missing

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Devastating flood rips through Libya city claiming 3,000 lives.

More than 10,000 are believed missing after Storm Daniel dumped so much rain on Libya’s northeast that two dams collapsed sending water flowing into already inundated areas.

The death toll is huge and above 10,000 are reported missing, Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) delegation in Libya, said Tuesday during a press briefing in Geneva.

As many as 6,000 people are missing from the eastern city of Derna alone, Othman Abduljalil, health minister in Libya’s eastern parliament-backed government, told a television channel.

Abduljalil toured Derna on Monday, describing parts of it as a “ghost town.”

The situation was catastrophic. The bodies are still lying in many places, Abduljalil told one of Libya’s news channels.

There are families still stuck inside their homes and there are victims under the rubble, he said.

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