Libya’s prime minister of the east-based government, which is not recognized internationally, said that there were more than « 2,000 dead and thousands missing » in the eastern city of Derna alone after catastrophic floods caused by Storm Daniel. The Red Cross has reported that more than 10,000 people were missing.
Officials in Libya have said at least 150 people were killed in the floods that were triggered after Storm Daniel made landfall on Sunday, September 10. But the Red Cross claimed the toll was likely much higher. « Our teams on the ground are still doing their assessment, (but) from what we see and from the news coming to us, the death toll is huge, » Tamer Ramadan of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told reporters in Geneva via video link from Tunis.
Mediterranean Storm Daniel on Sunday night caused havoc and flash flooding in many towns in eastern Libya but the worst destruction was in Derna, where heavy rainfall and floods broke dams and washed away entire neighborhoods, authorities said. « The situation is catastrophic, » said Othman Abduljaleel, the health minister in Libya’s eastern government. « The bodies are still lying on the ground in many parts (of the city). Hospitals are filled with bodies. And there are areas we have yet to reach. »
Watch the scale of the flooding below:
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