More than 5,300 bodies have been counted in Libya’s flood-hit city of Derna so far, a minister for Libya’s eastern administration tells the Reuters news agency.
Nearly 5,300 people have been confirmd dead and up to 10,000 people are missing with twice as many displaced according to Libyaβs Red Crescent spokesman Taqfiq Shukri.
Massive destruction have been captured in images published online from the port city of Derna, home to 100,000 people, where multi-storey buildings on the river banks collapsed and houses vanished in the raging waters after two upstream dams broke.
The disaster in the country was caused by torrential rains from Storm Daniel, which made landfall in Libya on Sunday after earlier lashing other Mediterranean countries, especially Greece but also Bulgaria and Turkey.
The coastal city of Derna, 250 kilometres (150 miles) west of Benghazi, is ringed by hills and bisected by what is normally a dry riverbed in summer, but which has turned into a raging torrent that also swept away several major bridges.
