Libya floods: 5,300 feared dead, 10,000 reported missing

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According to media source, Officials in eastern Libya have retrieved the bodies of more than 1,000 victims from the rubble in a coastal city that has been inundated by devastating floods, an official said Tuesday after visiting the devastated area. An Interior Ministry spokesman says the death toll has exceeded 5,300 people killed in the city of Derna alone from the flooding unleashed by Mediterranean Storm Daniel.

As per media reports, Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), previously said 10,000 people were missing after the unprecedented flooding. Speaking to reporters at a U.N. briefing in Geneva via videoconference from Tunisia, he said the death toll was “huge” and expected to reach into the thousands in the coming days. Three IFRC volunteers died while helping victims of the floods, the organization’s chief, Jagan Chapagain, said on social media.

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