Libya floods: Rescue teams in Libya are working hard to recover the bodies of victims who have been carried out to sea by floodwaters that resemble a tsunami.

According to the ambulance authority in Derna, the city most severely hit, at least 2,300 people have died.

When Storm Daniel slammed Derna on Sunday, two dams and four bridges gave way, burying much of the city beneath water.

The Red Crescent estimates that 10,000 people are missing, and more deaths are anticipated.

Aid has begun to arrive, particularly from Egypt, but the fact that Libya is divided between two competing administrations has made rescue efforts difficult.

Among the nations that have declared they have sent or are prepared to send aid are the US, Germany, Iran, Italy, Qatar, and Turkey.

A river of floodwater can be seen pouring across the city in video footage taken on Sunday night after dark, with cars bobbing helplessly in the current.

There are terrifying tales of individuals being carried away by the tide as others clung to rooftops to survive.

Hisham Chkiouat, a representative of Libya’s eastern administration, said, I was shocked by what I saw, it’s like a tsunami.

Derna was badly flooded by heavy rain and burst dams

Kasim Al-Qatani, a volunteer in Bayda, told the BBC’s Newsnight program that it was challenging for rescuers to enter Derna because the majority of the key routes were out of service due to huge damage.

He said that 2.5 billion Libyan Dinar (£412 million; $515 million) would be donated to aid in the rebuilding of Derna and the eastern city of Benghazi. He claimed an investigation had been initiated into how the floods were able to cause such destruction.

The storm on Sunday also had an impact on the cities of Soussa, Al-Marj, and Misrata.

According to specialists in water engineering who spoke to the BBC, it seems likely that the top dam, which is around 12 kilometers (8 miles) from the city, fell first, sending its water rushing down the river valley toward the second dam, which is located closer to Derna and where neighborhoods were flooded.

According to Raja Sassi, who survived together with his wife and young daughter, at first we just thought it was heavy rain but at midnight we heard a huge explosion and it was the dam bursting, according to the Reuters news agency.

Noura Eljerbi, a journalist from Libya residing in Tunisia, told the BBC that she didn’t learn that about 35 of her family who shared an apartment building in Derna were still alive until she got in touch with a local rescue team.

My family was able to escape the burning house before the situation worsened. Now they are secure, she declared.

Mr. Qatani claimed that Derna lacked safe drinking water and medical supplies.

The sole hospital in Derna, he continued, was no longer able to accept patients because more than 700 dead bodies are waiting in the hospital, and it’s not that big.

Credits: www.bbc.com

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