'We were asleep, and when we woke up, we found water besieging the house,' said one resident
There were conflicting reports of the death toll, with the Red Crescent in Benghazi estimating there had been 150 casualties, which it said could rise to 250 in the coming days.But acting Prime Minister Ossama Hamad, head of one of Libya’s two rival governments, later said that up to 2,000 were dead, and thousands of others reported missing.
Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, prime minister of the rival interim government in Tripoli, also declared three days of mourning in all the affected cities, calling them “disaster areas”.
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