Floods: in Libya, 10,000 people have disappeared

In a video broadcast by a Turkish news agency, the city of derna (Libya) is totally devastated. Sunday September 10, Storm Daniel hit this coastal town of 10,000 inhabitants hard. These terrible images seem to confirm the balance sheet extremely heavy put forward by the authorities who govern the eastern part of the country. “Just in the city of dernathere are more than 2,000 dead”announces Ahmed al-Mormarithe spokesperson for the armed forces based in the east, who deplores many missing.

Delicate rescue operations

According to the authorities, the collapse of two dams explains the scale of the disaster in this city. As for the Red Cross, whose Libyan branch is already hard at work, the estimate of the number of victims is just as alarming. “The death toll is truly enormous and could reach thousands. The number of missing people rises to 10,000″says Tamer Ramadan, a member of the International Federation of the Red Cross. On site, the roads are closed. Rockslides and landslides complicate the arrival of help.