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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chris Stevenson

Fury over ‘avoidable’ deaths in Libya floods as thousands buried in mass graves with 11,000 confirmed killed

Abdullah Doma/AFP via Getty Images

Fury is growing over the thousands of people killed in the flooding that has devastated Libya – with calls for an urgent inquiry over what one UN official called the “avoidable” death toll.

Thousands have been buried, mostly in mass graves, in the worst-hit eastern city of Derna, with thousands more bodies waiting to be processed. Officials in the port city believe that the final death toll could reach 20,000.

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