Rescue teams from Türkiye have joined the operations in eastern Libya, where 'entire villages have been overwhelmed by the floods'.
Rescue teams from Türkiye have joined the operations in eastern Libya, where "entire villages have been overwhelmed by the floods".Many of Derna's buildings on the banks of the river collapsed, with people and cars vanishing in the raging waters. Photo: AP
Media reports quoted a spokesman for the interior ministry of Libya's eastern-based government as saying"more than 5,200" people had died in Derna in the floods unleashed by Storm Daniel. "We don't have a definite number right now," he said on Tuesday, quoting the organisation's independent sources as saying"the number of missing people is hitting 10,000 persons so far".The city of Derna, a 300-kilometre drive east of Benghazi, is ringed by hills and bisected by what is normally a dry riverbed in summer, but which became a raging torrent of mud-brown water that also swept away several major bridges.
With global concern about the disaster spreading, several nations offered urgent aid and rescue teams to help the war-scarred country that has been overwhelmed by what one UN official called"a calamity of epic proportions".
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