7 Libyan military personnel have additionally gone lacking throughout ongoing rescue efforts.
Greater than 2,000 individuals are feared useless amid devastating flooding attributable to Storm Daniel, which blasted throughout the Libyan metropolis of Derna, CNN reported. The storm made landfall in japanese Libya on Sunday, triggering flooding and destroying amenities alongside its path.
Ahmed Mismari, the spokesperson for the Libyan Nationwide Military (LNA) that controls japanese Libya, mentioned in a televised information convention that the catastrophe got here after dams above Derna had collapsed, “sweeping entire neighborhoods with their residents into the ocean”.
”As a consequence, three bridges have been destroyed. The flowing water carried away complete neighborhoods, ultimately depositing them into the ocean,” he mentioned.
A number of pictures and movies have surfaced on-line displaying the magnitude of harm and destruction attributable to the floods. Clips shared on X confirmed drowned automobiles, collapsed buildings, and torrents of water surging throughout streets.
Listed below are some movies:
After devastating Greece within the nation’s worst ever flood catastrophe, #medicane Daniel submerges East Libya below water. First estimate of two,000 useless, many lacking thought to have been washed out to sea. Apocalyptic. #ClimateCrisis#ClimateActionNowpic.twitter.com/HTxgiTQbaz
— George Tsakraklides (@99blackbaloons) September 11, 2023
Everybody on this a part of the town of #Darna in japanese #Libya was taken unexpectedly as a #tsunami -like rushed down the valley. Police, utilizing megaphones, rushed to warn them as flood was approaching shouting: “Guys get out of the valley…” But it surely was too late. pic.twitter.com/5sYiEabFz4
— Stated Laswad سعيد الأسود (@LaswadSaid) September 11, 2023
Thread of movies of the torrents and floods that occurred and are nonetheless occurring at this time within the japanese area of #Libya
The state of affairs is catastrophic within the metropolis of Al-Bayda in japanese Libya pic.twitter.com/ieLO3Idx7h
— Mahmud Mohammed (@MahmudM27830556) September 10, 2023
🛑 URGENT: Huge flooding in El Jabal El Akhdar, East of #Libya. Hundreds trapped below rising waters. Pressing worldwide support and help wanted. Please unfold the phrase & let’s come collectively to assist. @RedCross@UN@Top_Disaster@USEmbassyLibya@UKinLibyapic.twitter.com/qtKAJQJPjg
— Ahmed Abdulgalil (@Ahmed_alabidi) September 10, 2023
Rabbimiz sen kardeşlerimizin yardımcısı ol.. #Libyapic.twitter.com/1wXiHwm9rs
— ᎬbᏒu..🦋 (@EbruZengnn) September 12, 2023
Othman Abduljalil, the well being minister in Libya’s japanese parliament-backed authorities informed Libya’s Almasar TV from Derna on Monday, ”The state of affairs [in Derna] was catastrophic… The our bodies are nonetheless mendacity in lots of locations.”
Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya specialist, informed the BBC the loss of life toll may attain as many as “a number of thousand” individuals. 7 Libyan military personnel have additionally gone lacking throughout ongoing rescue efforts.
Final week, the storm brought about devastating flooding in Greece earlier than shifting into the Mediterranean and remodeling right into a tropical-like cyclone often called a medicane.
Libya, a rustic of six million individuals, has been divided between rival administrations within the east and west since 2014, following the 2011 rebellion in opposition to late dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Each governments declared three days of mourning after Storm Daniel swept in.
