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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Robert Dex

Expert warnings about dams in Libya ignored for years before floods, says prosecutor

Warnings about the “dilapidated” state of two dams meant to protect northeast Libya were ignored before the disastrous flood which killed more than 11,000 people, a prosecutor has claimed.

Towns including Derna were hit by the floods earlier this month and it has since emerged experts repeatedly called for immediate maintenance to the two structures meant to protect the city but successive governments in the chaos-stricken North African nation did not react.

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