A city of roughly 100,000 people, Derna sustained heavy damage. The worst-hit city is Derna, which sits some 300 kilometers (190 miles) east of Benghazi, the second-largest city in the country. The flood hit Libya’s northeast, which lies on the Mediterranean coast. CNN is unable to independently verify the number of deaths or those missing. Libya has been riven by political turmoil since civil war erupted in 2014, and now has two rival governments, the eastern parliament-backed government in Benghazi and the internationally recognized government in Tripoli.Įach has reported conflicting numbers for victims following the catastrophic floods in the country. We are praying for better things,” Milad said. A total of eight people are all gone,” Emad Milad told CNN. “My wife Areej’s sister and her husband both passed away. One resident of Tobruk, a city to the east, told CNN that eight of his relatives died in the flooding in Derna. Others who learned of their families’ tragic fate are devastated. Relatives of those still missing told CNN they are terrified. More than 30,000 people have been displaced, the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said on Wednesday. Local rescue teams continue to search for the missing, according to state media. In Derna alone, at least 10,100 people are missing, the UN report explained. The coastal city’s shores appeared to have been severely eroded.Īt least 11,300 people are dead in Derna, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Saturday, revising an earlier estimate, and about 170 people had been killed outside Derna. Satellite images showed buildings in the worst-hit city of Derna destroyed by water and sand. Emergency teams are working to find survivors and retrieve bodies after a massive flood hit Libya’s northeast three days ago, killing at least 11,000 people and leaving 10,000 missing.Įyewitness footage shared on social media showed the devastation after the floods, with collapsed rooftops and tumbled cars amid the rubble of destroyed infrastructure.
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