The efforts by foreign countries to aid Libya in the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding that happened is gathering momentum, as the number of people feared dead is expected to keep rising.
Rescue forces from Egypt, Turkey and Qatar are among those to have arrived the country.
The Derna city mayor of estimates that as severe as 20,000 people may have perished.
The mayor had said that the figure was based on the number of districts totally destroyed when two dams burst on Sunday, September 10, releasing a great outpouring of water.
Several bodies remain under the rubble of destroyed buildings or in the sea.
Meanwhile, the UN’s meteorological branch has castigated the warning systems that were put in Libya.
The World Meteorological Organization–WMO, secretary-general Petteri Taalas had said that if a normally operating meteorological service had been in place, proper warnings could have been issued, saving hundreds of lives.
Taalas had additionally, revealed that the WMO had previously tried to assist Libyan authorities with improving the meteorological system, but these efforts had been prevented by security threats.
