Authorities fear that the death toll may increase.
As a result < strong>floodsin Libya in the city of Derna could have killed from 18 to 20 thousand people.
The mayor of the village, Abdulmenam al-Haiti, told Al Arabiya TV channel.
It is reported , that the head of Derna made such an assessment based on the number of destroyed areas.
As a result of the devastating flood in Libya, according to preliminary estimates by authorities, at least 5,000 people could have died, writes the BBC.
“The number of missing people is in the thousands, and the death toll is expected to be 10 thousands,” said the Minister of Health of the administration that controls eastern Libya, Osman Abdel Jalil.
In Derna, entire neighborhoods were washed away. More than 700 unidentified bodies have been collected from the cemetery, and local authorities say thousands are missing.
“The situation in the city of Derna is becoming more and more tragic, there is no final data on the number of victims,” Jalil said. “Many areas are still inaccessible.”
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Many people were washed into the Mediterranean Sea. For several days now, the waves have been throwing their bodies ashore. Entire families died. Many are buried in large mass graves.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Libya called the death toll enormous. Fighting the floods, they say, is “beyond the capabilities of the government, society and people,” and international assistance will be required to cope with its consequences.
Note that the city of Derna is located on the Mediterranean coast. As of 2005, its population was 79 thousand people.
Cyclone Daniel hit the northeast of Libya on September 10 and brought stormy winds and downpours with thunderstorms to cities located on the Mediterranean coast.
Recall that on September 2, the powerful supertyphoon Saola hit the southern coast of China. It forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
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