With thousands still missing, new satellite images from before and after Sunday’s flooding show scale of destruction
Tariq al-Kharraz, a representative of Libya’s eastern government, said entire neighbourhoods had been washed away, with many bodies swept out to sea.
Libya has seen years of war and chaos after a popular uprising in 2011 which toppled and killed the country’s longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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