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Storm Daniel pounded Libya on Sunday night, unleashing heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding. The major destruction came when two dams on the Wadi Derna River burst, creating a wall of water ...
The death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent ...
Emergency teams are working to find survivors and retrieve bodies after a massive flood hit Libya’s northeast three days ago, killing at least 11,000 people and leaving 10,000 missing.
Online and satellite images show the extent of the damage in the city of Derna, with entire city blocks disappearing overnight.
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Images taken by satellite show the physical devastation from a flood that killed at least 11,300 people in the eastern Libyan city of Derna.. Two dams above Derna burst early ...
Ossama Hamad, the prime minister of the east Libya government, declared Derna a disaster zone after heavy rainfall and floods destroyed much of the city which is located in the delta of the small ...
Thousands of people were killed, with thousands more missing in devastating floods that hit Libya's Derna after Storm Daniel, fueled by civil war, corruption, climate change and neglect.