About 3,000 people have perished, leaving 10,000 others missing in the immense floods that have submerged regions in eastern Libya.
Taqfiq Shukri, Libya’s Red Crescent spokesman had said on Tuesday, September 12, that about 2,084 people had so far, been confirmed dead.
Meanwhile, the IFRC head Tamer Ramadan had commented that the number of missing people was hitting 10,000 presently.
According to estimates, at least 20,000 people have been displaced as a result of the floods.
Libya’s eastern administration situated in Benghazi has estimated that at least 3,000 lives had been lost.
On Monday, September 11, what is now called Storm Daniel had swept through eastern Libya, leading to two dams on the Wadi Derna River to explode and send millions of cubic meters of water downstream, saturating the river plain that hit Derna in the process.
Apartment buildings had collapsed partially, and a seafront bridge was carried away as tonnes of water flowed to the sea.
An Al Jazeera reporter, Malik Traina had remarked that it is yet unknown, how many people were missing in this natural disaster.
“Authorities have been trying to reach Derna because the roads leading to the city are either ruined or cut off by the flooding.” Traina had reported.
He had however, added that help had begun to reach people outside Derna.
Communications with the city have been interrupted by the storm, and this has made gathering information on casualties very difficult.
A lot of the patients and staff have had to vacated the flooded hospitals, but a lot more people are still trapped in the flooded areas.
