'We haven't found anyone': Two dams burst over the weekend in Derna, Libya, where the Red Cross and local officials said at least 10,000 people were missing
Two dams burst over the weekend in Derna, Libya, where the Red Cross and local officials said at least 10,000 people were missing after the devastating floods.
The confirmed death toll has exceeded 5,300, Mohammed Abu-Lamousha, a spokesperson for the administration that controls the east of Libya told a state-run news agency late on Tuesday. Tariq al-Kharraz, another representative of the regional government, said that entire neighbourhoods had been washed away, with many bodies swept out to sea.
Hundreds of bodies were piled up in cemeteries with few survivors able to identify them, according to officials, who said they expected the death toll to rise above 10,000 people
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