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SHOCKING: Rescue teams in libya s flood ravaged derna search for thousands still missing | Mind Blowing Facts

Soldiers stand in front of buildings destroyed in flash floods after the Mediterranean storm "Daniel" hit Libya's eastern city of Derna, on 14 September, 2023. © AFP - Abdullah Doma

Derna (Libya) (AFP) – Emergency teams on Friday kept up their search for the thousands still posted as missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, killing at least 4,000 people.

The enormous surge of water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced Derna to an apocalyptic wasteland where entire city blocks and untold numbers of people were washed into the Mediterranean.

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