A desperate search for survivors of the deadly floods in Libya was under way on Wedbesday as officials said the death toll had risen rose to more than 5,000 and the United Nations warned that a “calamity of epic proportions” had taken place.
Some bodies were reported to be lying on the streets as children screamed and other victims were buried in mass graves in the Mediterranean port city of Derna, where thousands of people are feared to have been swept into the sea by the wave of water unleashed by floods.
