A wall of water several stories high from two burst dams smashed into apartment buildings in Derna, east Libya, drowning entire families in minutes.
The city of Derna, in eastern Libya, has buried 700 victims of catastrophic flooding, with 10,000 people reported missing.“What descended was a torrent of debris killing everyone,” he said. Now, the dead are trapped under several feet of mud and detritus.Fadelallah said all 13 deceased members of his family lived in a neighborhood near the river valley. Their bodies were recovered and buried by the Red Crescent, their names inked on a list of the dead sent to him by the aid group.
“They were screaming, ‘Help, help!’” he said over the phone from a field hospital. “It was like a Hollywood horror movie.”divided between rival administrations Both governments, and their various international patrons, have banded together to help those affected. But progress has been slow. Key bridges, roads and other infrastructure are gone. Derna, which had a population of 90,000, largely was cut off from the world before the first aid convoys arrived late Tuesday.
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