Residents of the devastated Libyan city of Derna are desperately searching for missing relatives, and rescue workers are appealing for more body bags, after a catastrophic flood that has killed thousands of people and swept many out to sea.
abc.net.au/news/libyans-search-for-missing-relatives-after-flood-devastates-city/102854050Residents of the devastated Libyan city of Derna are desperately searching for missing relatives, and rescue workers have appealed for more body bags, after a catastrophic flood that has killed thousands of people and swept many out to sea.
Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television the estimated number of deaths in the city could reach 18,000 to 20,000 based on the number of districts destroyed by the flood. "I went by foot searching for them … I went to all hospitals and schools but no luck," he told Reuters, weeping with his head in his hands.
Streets were covered in deep mud and strewn with uprooted trees and hundreds of wrecked cars, many flipped on their sides or onto their roofs. One car was wedged on the second-floor balcony of a gutted building."I survived with my wife but I lost my sister," Mohamed Mohsen Bujmila, a 41-year-old engineer, said.
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