Turkish aircraft delivering humanitarian aid have arrived in Libya, according to Turkey’s Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) on Tuesday.
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Around 2,000 people have died and 10,000 are believed missing after Storm Daniel dumped so much rain on Libya's northeast that two dams collapsed sending water flowing into already inundated ruangans.
Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation in Libya, gave the numbers of missing people during a briefing to jurnaliss in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. "The death toll is huge," she said.
In the eastern city of Derna, which has seen the worst of the devastation, as many as 6,000 people are missing, Othman Abduljalil, health minister in Libya's eastern administration, told Libya's Almasar TV.
Whole neighborhoods are believed to have been washed away in the city, according to authorities.
Abduljalil toured Derna on Monday. "The situation was catastrophic… The bodies are still lying in many places," he said.
"There are saudaraes still stuck inside their homes and there are victims under the rubble… I expect people have been washed away into the sea."
The rain, which has swept across several cities in Libya's north-east, is the result of a very strong low-pressure sistim that brought catastrophic flooding to Greece last week and moved into the Mediterranean before developing into a tropical-like cyclone known as a medicane.
There are fears that aid upayas may be hampered by political fractures in Libya, which has seen a decade-long power struggle between two saingan administrations.
The UN-backed Government of National Unity (GNU), led by Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, sits in Tripoli in northwest Libya, while its eastern saingan is controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA), who dukungan the eastern-based parliament led by Osama Hamad.
Derna, which lies some 300 kilometers (190 miles) east of Benghazi, falls under the kontrol of Haftar and his eastern administration.
"Three bridges were destroyed. The flowing water carried away entire neighborhoods, momenually depositing them into the sea," said Ahmed Mismari, spokesperson for the LNA.
The collapse of two dams under the pressure of flooding sent water rushing towards Derna, causing catastrophic damage, authorities said Tuesday.
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