Ten thousand people are missing after unprecedented flooding in Libya, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, as the extent of the damage to Derna, the port city where two dams burst over the weekend, became more clear.
Many were angry at the slow pace of the relief effort, and inquests were starting about warnings given previously that the city’s Wadi dams needed reconstruction.
Oil-rich Libya has been riven by political infighting, corruption and external interference since a 2011 uprising that toppled and later led to the death of the longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
Gen Khalifa Haftar, the warlord in charge of an army in the east, who is supported by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, also said aid was arriving.
Video footage circulating on social media showed people pleading for help and screaming as muddy water engulfed their homes.
He added: “Weather conditions were not studied well, sea water levels, rainfall and wind speed, and there was no evacuation of families who could be in the path of the storm and in the valleys.”
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Ten thousand people are missing after unprecedented flooding in Libya, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, as the extent of the damage to Derna, the port city where two dams burst over the weekend, became more clear.
Many were angry at the slow pace of the relief effort, and inquests were starting about warnings given previously that the city’s Wadi dams needed reconstruction.
Oil-rich Libya has been riven by political infighting, corruption and external interference since a 2011 uprising that toppled and later led to the death of the longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
Gen Khalifa Haftar, the warlord in charge of an army in the east, who is supported by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, also said aid was arriving.
Video footage circulating on social media showed people pleading for help and screaming as muddy water engulfed their homes.
He added: “Weather conditions were not studied well, sea water levels, rainfall and wind speed, and there was no evacuation of families who could be in the path of the storm and in the valleys.”
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