The death toll in Libya has risen to 11,300 according to the Libyan Red Crescent, and another 10,000 are feared missing after a storm in the Mediterranean caused dams to burst — washing entire coastal neighborhoods out to sea.
Storm Daniel pounded the North African country Sunday night, unleashing heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding. But the major destruction would come hours later, when two dams located on the
According to the United Nations refugee agency, UNICEF, at least 30,000 people have been internally displaced in Libya — sheltering in schools with little resources. Three hospitals in the north-east of the country are not in operation putting pressure on the resources of other surrounding hospitals. Nearly 300,000 children are believed to have been exposed to the conditions of Storm Daniel and the subsequent flash floods and are in need of humanitarian assistance, UNICEF figures state.
A U.N. chief said that the scope of the disaster could have been lessened if there had been advanced warning systems in place. Speaking from Geneva,the Speaker of the Libyan parliament
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