Storm Daniel caused devastation in Libya… 3 thousand died, 10 thousand people missing

Nearly a quarter of Libya’s eastern city of Derna was destroyed after the storm caused a dam to burst, authorities in the region said Tuesday, and the Red Cross said 10,000 people were feared missing across the country in flooding. At least 1,000 bodies had already been recovered in the city of Derna alone and authorities expected the death toll to be much higher. A Reuters journalist en route to Derna, a coastal city of about 125,000 residents, saw vehicles overturned on the sides of roads, trees downed, and homes flooded.

The number of bodies recovered in Derna exceeds 1,000. He said that I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed. Abu Chakiuat later told Al Jazeera that he expected the total number of dead across the country to exceed 2,500, as the number of missing continued to rise. “We can confirm from our independent sources of information that the number of people still missing is approaching 10,000,” Tamer Ramadan, head of a delegation from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told reporters.