The government that runs the east of the country is working to identify the victims buried without identification as well as the missing, whose number rises to more than 10,000, according to estimates.
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The toll continues to rise. The floods caused almost two weeks ago in Libya by Storm Daniel left at least 3,845 dead, according to a new report communicated Saturday, September 23 in the evening by the local Libyan authorities. This figure, which only includes bodies buried and recorded by the Ministry of Health, “is expected to increase every day”according to Mohamed Eljarh, spokesperson for a relief committee formed by the authorities running the east of the country. He said the bodies hastily buried by residents in the first days after the disaster remain unaccounted for.
More than 43,000 displaced
According to him, the authorities are working to identify the victims buried without identification as well as the missing, whose number rises to more than 10,000, according to estimates by the authorities and international humanitarian organizations. Storm Daniel notably hit Derna, a town of 100,000 inhabitants bordering the Mediterranean, causing the rupture of two dams upstream and causing a flood of the magnitude of a tsunami, washing away everything in its path. More than 43,000 people have been displaced by the floods, according to the latest statistics from the International Organization for Migration.