The mayor’s home in the destroyed Libyan city of Derna has been torched by angry protesters, as tensions reached boiling point over last week’s catastrophic flood.
Grief turned to anger as hundreds of mourning civilians gathered outside Derna’s iconic al-Sahaba Mosque in protest at the authorities’ response to the unprecedented rains that ripped through Libya’s Mediterranean coastline 10 days ago, destroying two dams above Derna and killing thousands.
