Libya's General Prosecutor, al-Sediq al-Sour, said that prosecutors would investigate the collapse of the two dams, which were built in the 1970s, as well as the allocation of maintenance funds.

In Libya’s case, bad management appears to have been the cause of the dam’s collapse. Could this tragedy have been avoided? Yes, if the responsible people operating the dams had opened the ...

Libya’s top prosecutor jails 8 officials for potential negligence in deadly dam collapse. Rescuers and relatives of victims set up tents in front of collapsed buildings in Derna, Libya, on Sept ...

Libya's General Prosecutor, al-Sediq al-Sour, said that prosecutors would investigate the collapse of the two dams, which were built in the 1970s, as well as the allocation of maintenance funds.

More than 5,000 people were killed in Libya after torrential rains caused two dams to burst near the coastal city of Derna, destroying much of the city and carrying entire neighborhoods into the ...

Derna, a city situated in a narrow valley on Libya’s northeastern coast, was hit by a deadly flood caused by the collapse of ...

Libya’s top prosecutor ordered the arrest of eight Libyan officials as part of the investigation into the collapse of two dams in the eastern port city of Derna earlier this month.

Libya’s top prosecutor will investigate the collapse of two dams in the eastern port of Derna that launched a fast-moving wall of water that killed thousands of people and largely destroyed the ...

The Derna dam’s storage capacity is listed as 18 million cubic meters of water, while the smaller Mansour dam has a capacity of just 1.5 million cubic meters.

CAIRO — Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation.

Dams that collapsed outside Libya’s eastern city of Derna unleashed flash floods that may have killed thousands. Poor forecasting and early warning systems also play a huge role in saving lives.