If expert advice going back years had been acted on, at least 11,000 deaths may have been avoided in the Libyan city, officials suggest.
Experts have warned about the structural integrity of the twin dams in Derna for years, a Libyan state prosecutor revealed.
Libya’s general prosecutor al-Sediq al-Sour said that more than a decade later, a study was commissioned by the Libyan government that revealed cracks and fissures in the dam structures.Turkish firm Arsel Construction Company was also contracted in 2007 to maintain the two dams and to build a third damn in between them.
The audit agency has since blamed the Ministry of Works and Natural Resources for failing to cancel the contract and give it to a company that would do the work.
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