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Fatima Al-Kassab

Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses

Search and rescue operations are underway in the region affected by floods due to Storm Daniel in Derna, Libya, Sept. 14. (Hamza Al Ahmar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

LONDON — For Ehdaa Bujeldain, an English teacher living with her family in Bab-Tobruk, in the mountains of Derna, eastern Libya, it sounded like a bomb going off in the middle of the night.

"On Sunday night, at 3 a.m., me and my family heard something like an explosion," she tells NPR by phone. "We lost electricity and connection. We didn't know what had happened. Then we heard it was a dam in Derna that had collapsed."

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