“#NorthAfrica is not immune to #ClimateChange, but this is also about #corruption and incompetence. In #Morocco perhaps you had seconds or minutes when the tectonic plates moved, but here in #Libya there was plenty of warning about this hurricane … yet there was no evacuation of #Derna. "
"Ten thousand people had been declared missing by official aid agencies such as the Libyan #RedCrescent, but the new, ominous higher estimate of 20,000 deaths came from the director of Al-Bayda Medical Center, Abdul Rahim Maziq.
Corpses still litter the street, and drinkable water is in short supply" #LibyaFloods#Floods
‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears #Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000
Experts estimate that 30 million cubic metres of water were released when the dams broke, equivalent to 12,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. #LibyaFloods
#Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television the estimated number of deaths in the city could reach between 18,000 to 20,000 based on the number of districts destroyed by the flood. #LibyaFloods
#Libya’s attorney general has been asked by senior politicians to launch an urgent inquiry into the catastrophic #floods that have killed tens of thousands of people, including into allegations local officials imposed a curfew on the night #StormDaniel struck, causing the collapse of two badly maintained dams. #LibyaFloods
The #UN’s World Meteorological Organization chief Petteri Taalas said many deaths could have been avoided if #EarlyWarning and #EmergencyManagement systems had functioned properly in the war-scarred country. #LibyaFloods
#Libya’s general prosecutor, Al-Sediq al-Sour, said prosecutors would investigate the collapse of the #dams, which were built in the 1970s, as well as the allocation of maintenance funds. He said prosecutors would investigate local authorities in the city, as well as previous governments. #LibyaFloods#Floods
Add comment