Despite experts saying Derna's dam was at risk of collapse, authorities were slow to react and enforced a curfew. This is how a disaster went from bad to catastrophic
Bürgermeister der Stadt #Derna geht davon aus, dass sich die Zahl der Toten allein in der Stadt noch auf 18.000 bis 20.000 erhöhen werde. #Libyen#LibyaFloods
De första uppgifterna om Darnah jag såg angav ca 2000 döda. Nu är det uppe i 5000 + 10 000 saknade [uppdaterat: 6000 precis efter tootandet]. Med tanke på omfattningen har jag ingen aning om vad som skulle kunna vara ”rimligt”.
Mest anmärkningsvärt med bilderna är att de skadade hus och kvarter man ser är de som står kvar.
Obs smutsranden i bild 4, som anger hur högt vattnet gick som mest.
#Derna#Lybie
6.000 personnes mortes, 10.000 disparues (bilan provisoire)
2 barrages se sont effondrés
Les vagues ont atteint 7 mètres emportant tout sur leur passage
Entre 25 et 45% de la ville a disparu selon l'armée
Au moins 30 000 personnes ont été déplacées #Effroyable
Conjugaison d'un violent ouragan, des bâtis sur le lit d'une rivière en dessous de barrages. L'hybris humaine
#Hurricane#Storm#Daniel#HurricaneDaniel
"The sea at Derna is constantly dumping dozens of bodies”, - Hichem Chkiouat, Minister of civil aviation in the administration of Eastern Libya.
The death toll from the #floodings in #Lybia has risen to 6,000, with thousands still missing, the government official said. 5,300 bodies have been counted in #Derna alone so far, with that number expected to rise.
“#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. "
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