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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 ...
Flooding creates a disaster zone in Libya from Storm Daniel The confirmed death toll from the weekend flooding did not include Derna, which was inaccessible, ...
Libya Flood Disaster That Killed Thousands Was Decades in Making Dams that collapsed in the storm had received no maintenance in more than 20 years despite repeated warnings Floods from a deadly ...
UN says most Libya flood deaths could have been avoided, as reports emerge of how 7-meter wave ‘wiped out’ buildings By Sana Noor Haq , Celine Alkhaldi and Eyad Kourdi , CNN 6 minute read ...
Derna, a city situated in a narrow valley on Libya’s northeastern coast, was hit by a deadly flood caused by the collapse of ...
At least 5,500 people have died and more than 10,000 are believed missing after Tropical Storm Daniel broke through two dams that protected Libya’s eastern coastal city of Derna from flooding ...
Libya Floods Leave Derna A Disaster Zone; Thousands Feared Dead, 10,000 Missing Associated Press . Published: September 12, 2023. Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday ...
Libya's flood disaster, which killed thousands in the city of Derna, also displaced more than 43,000 people, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday. A tsunami-sized flash flood ...
Libya's prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of eight officials as part of his inquiry into the recent flood disaster that killed thousands, his office said on Monday.The flash flood, which ...
The scientists in the new study found that human-caused climate change made the disaster in Libya up to 50 times more likely to happen, with up to 50% more rain during the period, as a result of ...
The International Organization of Migration puts the number of people in eastern Libya displaced by the floods at 38,000 — 30,000 in Derna alone. A man sits by the graves of flood victims in ...
The flooding that killed thousands in Libya's Derna last month damaged the ruins at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in the mountains nearby, but it also revealed new archaeological remains there ...