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The floods which hit Libya have left 3,000 dead and more than 10,000 missing. But there is still hope of finding survivors. 19/20 info followed civil security on site to set up a field hospital.
“Quiet, please! No one must move.” Spanish rescuers have just spotted a survivor under the rubble of a building. A man gets as close as possible to try to locate him precisely. We do not know if the person trapped under the rubble will be out of the woods. But four days after the passage of Cyclone Daniel, the hope of finding survivors remains, while relief efforts are deployed. During the night, a French military plane landed on the Al Abraq base (Libya).
Thousands of deaths
On board, around fifty firefighters and 40 tonnes of medical equipment. Enough to set up a small maternity ward, a field hospital, which must be deployed in the coming days in Derna. This coastal town in eastern Libya was the hardest hit. It is unrecognizable today, disfigured by an immense wave of mud fueled by the destruction of two dams located upstream of the city. Rescuers are busy in this apocalypse setting. The toll is still uncertain, the deaths number in the thousands. According to the Red Cross, 10,000 people are missing.