Flash floods in the port city destroyed roads and swept neighborhoods out to sea. Heavy rain from a cyclone in the Mediterranean inundated cities along the northeastern coast of Libya in early September 2023, causing thousands of deaths. The port city of Derna (Darnah), home to about 90,000 people,
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