At least 2,300 have died and 10,000 people are believed missing after two dams collapsed on the northeastern coast.
of water onto the city—the hardest hit part of Libya—washing away entire neighborhoods. Other cities in the northeast of the country have also been affected.
“The death toll is huge,” Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation in Libya, said at a press conference in Geneva. The natural disaster comes just days after a 6.8 magnitude earthquakeRead More:But aid workers and Libya observers fear that political fractures in the country will hamper relief efforts. The epicenter of the flood disaster in Libya falls in areas under the control of commander Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army.
Libya was the site of protracted fighting and a six-year civil war from 2014 to 2020 and the country is split by rival administrations, with Haftar dominating the east, and the U.N.-backed Government of National Unity, led by Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, controlling the west. Haftar laid siege to Derna in 2017, capturing the city in 2019. “Derna is still devastated by the war, which destroyed many areas of the city,” Abdulkader Assad, a political editor at the
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