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Rescuers retrieve hundreds of bodies in eastern Libya as 10,000 reported missing in deadly floods
[NYPOST] Rescue teams struggled amid devastation in eastern Libya, retrieving hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that has been inundated by devastating floods, a humanitarian agency said Tuesday.Authorities estimated that as many as 2,000 people are believed dead in the city of Derna alone. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused havoc and flash flooding in many towns in eastern Libya but the worst destruction was in Derna, where heavy rainfall and floods broke dams and washed away entire neighborhoods, authorities said. Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Societies, said 10,000 people were missing after the unprecedented flooding. Speaking to news hounds at a U.N. briefing in Geneva via videoconference from Tunisia, he said the corpse count was "huge" and expected to reach into the thousands in the coming days. Posted by: Fred 2023-09-13 |
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