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Libya buries thousands after deadly floods that killed at least 5,100

The Libyan city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves as search teams scoured the area after devastating floods that killed at least 5,100 people, a health official said Thursday

The Independent UK

Before and after: satellite images show Libyan city devastated by flood

Satellite images of Derna after the flash flood show coastal neighbourhoods almost entirely submerged

The Guardian - UK

Whole families drowned in a Libyan city's flood. The only warning was the sound of the dams bursting

The wall of water several stories high smashed into apartment buildings, drowning entire families in minutes

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Libya floods: King and Queen ‘desperately saddened’ amid fears up to 20,000 have died

Mayor of Derna estimated between 18,000 and 20,000 people could have died based on the number of wiped-out districts in the city

Evening Standard

Global aid effort intensifies for Libya after catastrophic floods

A global effort to assist stricken Libya gathered pace Thursday after a tsunami-like flood killed nearly 4,000 people and left thousands missing. The mobilisation comes after the mayor of the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna said the death toll in the stricken city could reach 20,000.

France 24

Libya floods: appeals for body bags amid fears of disease ‘epidemic’

Mayor of flood-hit city of Derna calls for body-recovery teams as international aid starts to arrive

The Guardian - AU

An inside account of devastation and survival in the Libya floods

Huda Akram is a doctor based in Benghazi, Libya, whose family hails from Derna. She spoke to NPR on Wednesday, describing the harrowing scenes and what is happening now.

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King and Queen ‘desperately saddened’ by ‘horrific’ Libya floods

Storm Daniel hit the coastal city of Derna and other eastern parts of the North African country on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Death toll in Libya’s Derna flooding could reach 20,000: Mayor

Thousands remain missing after flooding from Storm Daniel wreaks havoc in the eastern city of Derna.

Al Jazeera

Climate change exacerbates deadly floods worldwide

Climate change makes deadly floods, like what happened in Libya, more likely. Floods in China, Greece and Brazil in recent weeks underscore the growing danger.

WEKU

Libya’s deadly dam collapse was decades in the making

With thousands of people dead and tens of thousands more left homeless by floods as a storm burst through the dams next to the east Libyan city of Derna, FRANCE 24 looks back at the years of violence and neglect that left the city ill-prepared for the unprecedented natural disasters…

France 24

The Guardian view on Libya’s floods: humans, not just nature, caused this disaster

Editorial: Much of the eastern city of Derna has disappeared. The lethal failures of the country’s authorities must bear much of the blame

The Guardian - UK

‘Washed out to sea’: Heartbreak of man who lost 32 family members in Libya floods as death toll could hit 20,000

‘I see the ruin, the destruction, the misery and the smell of death. Derna is now a dead city’

The Independent UK

UK Government announces support ‘worth up to £1 million’ for flood-hit Libya

The Foreign Office said the funding was an ‘initial package’ to provide assistance for those most affected by the devastation.

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‘A global problem’: Libya floods a wake-up call to dangers of climate change and old infrastructure

The dams that ruptured in the eastern city of Derna in Libya had been built to protect the city from heavy rains, but their collapse made the flooding even worse. FRANCE 24’s science reporter Shirli Sitbon examines how Libya became so vulnerable and what can other countries do to prevent…

The Independent UK

Palestinian man who fled Lebanon seeking safety in Libya was killed with his family by floods

A Palestinian man who had fled Lebanon more than three decades ago seeking safety and a better future in Libya was killed in the flooding this week along with his wife and two daughters

WEKU

More than 5,000 have been found dead after Libya floods

In the coastal city of Derna, dams broke, sending a torrent of water that submerged whole neighborhoods. Rescue efforts are complicated by the fact that Libya is divided between rival governments.

The Guardian - UK

Libya’s floods are result of climate crisis meeting a failed state

Storm Daniel was by no means the only factor behind the devastation wrought on the city of Derna

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Up First briefing: Biden impeachment inquiry; Libya flood; ineffective decongestants

Republicans begin a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Aid groups rush to Libya after catastrophic flooding. FDA advisers say a decongestant in common cold medicines doesn't work.

The Guardian - UK

‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000

Full scale of devastation in north African nation still not clear as aid agencies struggle to reach cut-off areas

Al Jazeera

Why did Derna’s dams break when Storm Daniel hit Libya?

Experts estimate that 30 million cubic metres of water were released into Derna after the dams broke.

France 24

Endless hardship: Libya's political instability deepens flood disaster

IN THE PRESS – Wednesday, September 13: We look at how Libya’s political deadlock is exacerbating the current situation in a country suffocated by deadly floods. But politics isn't the only factor, an emerging field in climate sciences is linking extreme weather events to global warming driven by human activity,…

Al Jazeera

Mapping Libya’s catastrophic flood damage in Derna after Storm Daniel

Two dams burst upstream from the coastal city, releasing a wall of water that swept away buildings, people inside them.

The Independent UK

Satellite images show scale of Libya devastation as mass graves used to bury dead

More than 1,500 corpses collected, half of them buried as of Tuesday evening

The Independent UK

Rescuers retrieve over 2,000 bodies in eastern Libya wrecked by devastating floods

Emergency workers uncovered more than 2,000 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away neighborhoods

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