“#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. "
Dozens of lifeless bodies and dead animals are floating off the coast of #Derna, #Libya.
The sea throws up the bodies of these who were swept away by the #floodings.
“We have a problem in retrieving the bodies from the sea, the Libyan navy, divers and frogmen are putting all their efforts into retrieving the bodies”- Libya prime minister Abdulhamid Al-Dbeibah.
Google translated from finnish for me: "The new normal: The death toll in #Libya's floods continues to rise. More than 5,200 people have already died in the city of #Derna on the #Mediterranean coast alone. The number of victims of the #floods is still expected to rise, with entire villages caught in flash floods caused by the #storm."
"Floodwaters in Derna, Libya, smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city.
"The startling death and devastation wreaked by Mediterranean storm Daniel pointed to the storm’s intensity, but also the vulnerability of a nation torn apart by chaos for more than a decade.
Mohamed Eljarh: #Derna - latest numbers of deaths and missing from the Ministry of Interior in Eastern #Libya: 5,200 deaths and 8,226 still missing. Numbers are likely to increase. Minister of Health hinted that the number of deaths could surpass 10,000. #Libya@libya
#StormDaniel
"As many as 2,000 people may have been drowned after a powerful storm unleashed catastrophic #floods in the eastern Libyan city of #Derna.
The deaths occurred after a powerful storm and heavy floods led to the collapse of two ageing dams, which released a swollen fast-moving river that simply washed away at least one neighbourhood."
The Red Crescent in Benghazi says #StormDaniel has killed at least 150 people in the eastern city of #Derna. The death toll is expected to rise after water levels in the city rose as high as three metres (10 feet).
Two Red Crescent workers have died as they attempted to rescue people from the floodwaters in Derna, the organisation’s branch in the city of Tobruk has said.
#Derna#flooding#HurricaneDaniel > #Libya’s Red Crescent spokesman Taqfiq Shukri says there are 2,084 people confirmed dead and 9,000 registered missing persons, as well as 20,000 people displaced.
Libya’s eastern administration estimates that 3,000 people are dead.
A look at two of the dams that may have collapsed, leading to the disaster at #Derna from the huge rains of #Medicane#Daniel 🌀. Unrecognized east #Libya 🇱🇾government say deaths exceed 2000.
Footage on social media showed people stranded on the roofs of their vehicles while trying get help in heavy #floods as Storm #Daniel hit the cities of #Benghazi, #Sousse, #AlBayda, #A-Marj and #Derna.
Authorities declared a state of extreme emergency, closing schools and stores and imposing a curfew as the storm hit on Sunday and Monday.