Disease outbreaks could bring 'a second devastating crisis' to Libya a week after a huge flash flood shattered Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths.
— The United Nations warned Monday that disease outbreaks could bring"a second devastating crisis" to Libya a week after a huge, sweeping thousands to their deaths. Local officials, aid agencies and the World Health Organization"are concerned about the risk of disease outbreak, particularly from contaminated water and the lack of sanitation", the United Nations said.
Tens of thousands of traumatized residents are homeless and badly in need of clean water, food and basic supplies amid a growing risk of cholera, diarrhea, dehydration and malnutrition, U.N. agencies have warned. The waters submerged a densely populated 2.3-square-mile area in Derna, damaging 1,500 buildings of which 891 were totally razed, according to a preliminary report released by the Tripoli government based on satellite images."We grew up here, we were raised here... But we've come to hate this place, we've come to hate what it has become," he said."The buildings, the neighborhood, the villagers, the sheikhs... the wadi has returned to the state it was 1,000 years ago.
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