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Deadly floods in Libya: Can national tragedy unite a divided country?

Flooding, brought by Storm Daniel, has pushed a divided nation to the limit with alarming levels of death and destruction. Badly battered by the storm, the coastal city of Derna is now underwater after the storm caused a dam there to burst. Other cities along Libya’s eastern coast such as…

France 24 · Sep 12, 2023

Libya fears a spiraling death toll from powerful storm floods

At least hundreds of people have died and thousands are feared missing in eastern Libya after Storm Daniel swept in, destroying dams and unleashing a torrent of muddy water that carried homes away.

WEKU · Sep 12, 2023

Questions raised over deadly impact of Storm Daniel in Libya

While climate crisis may have helped intensify storm, the parlous state of infrastructure is also to blame for its impacts, say experts

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2023

Thousands dead, missing as floods devastate eastern Libya

At least 2,200 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating entire neighbourhoods.

France 24 · Sep 12, 2023

In pictures: Quarter of coastal Libyan city wiped out in deadly flooding

Catastrophic storm floods have killed at least 2,300 people in the coastal city of Derna, Libyan emergency services said Tuesday, as local officials said around a quarter of the eastern city was wiped away when a dam burst.

France 24 · Sep 12, 2023

Death toll in Libya floods nearly 3,000 after Storm Daniel

Up to 10,000 people are missing and about twice as many have been displaced.

Al Jazeera · Sep 12, 2023

Libya flood: 10,000 missing and 3,000 feared dead as Storm Daniel sends wall of water through city of Derna

‘The situation is catastrophic. Hospitals are filled with bodies and there are areas we have yet to reach’

The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023

Rescue teams retrieve hundreds of bodies in Derna, one of the Libyan cities devastated by floods

Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that's been inundated by devastating floods

The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023

Libya floods: More than 5,000 people dead in ‘calamity of epic proportions’

Thousands are believed to have been carried away by flood waters after two upstream dams burst

Evening Standard · Sep 12, 2023

Flooding creates a disaster zone in Libya from Storm Daniel

The confirmed death toll from the weekend flooding did not include Derna, which was inaccessible, and many of the thousands missing there were believed carried away by waters after two dams burst.

WEKU · Sep 12, 2023