Morning Mail: 10,000 missing in Libyan floods, police racism warning, Biden impeachment bid Former Queensland officers say colleagues have gotten away with slurs The Guardian - AU · Sep 12, 2023
Hundreds buried in mass graves as Libya reels from devastating flooding Situation in Derna city ‘extremely dire’, as outside help starts to reach more than 36 hours after the disaster struck. Al Jazeera · Sep 12, 2023
Cyclone that devastated Libya is latest extreme event with some hallmarks of climate change Scientists say the Mediterranean storm that dumped torrential rain on the Libyan coast is just the latest extreme weather event to carry some hallmarks of climate change The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023
Deputy mayor of Derna, Libya’s flooded city, describes situation Ahmed Madroud says dams have not been maintained since 2002, and damage from floods will be difficult to repair. Al Jazeera · Sep 12, 2023
How Libya’s chaos left its people vulnerable to deadly flooding A storm that has killed thousands of people and left thousands more missing in Libya is the latest blow to a country that has been gutted by years of chaos and division The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023
Deadly floods in Libya: Can national tragedy unite a divided country? Flooding, brought by Storm Daniel, has pushed a divided nation to the limit with alarming levels of death and destruction. Badly battered by the storm, the coastal city of Derna is now underwater after the storm caused a dam there to burst. Other cities along Libya’s eastern coast such as… France 24 · Sep 12, 2023
Libya fears a spiraling death toll from powerful storm floods At least hundreds of people have died and thousands are feared missing in eastern Libya after Storm Daniel swept in, destroying dams and unleashing a torrent of muddy water that carried homes away. WEKU · Sep 12, 2023
Questions raised over deadly impact of Storm Daniel in Libya While climate crisis may have helped intensify storm, the parlous state of infrastructure is also to blame for its impacts, say experts The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2023
More than 2,300 dead, 10,000 thousand missing in Libya's catastrophic floods Catastrophic storm floods have killed at least 2,300 people in the coastal city of Derna, according to Libyan emergency services, as local officials say around a quarter of the eastern city was wiped away when a dam burst. Thousands more people are reported missing. Radio France Internationale · Sep 12, 2023
Destruction of Derna: why was flooding so bad in Libyan port city? Thousands are dead and missing after rains from Storm Daniel triggered the collapse of two dams The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2023
How have you been affected by the flooding in Libya? We want to speak to people affected by the flooding in Libya, as well as those helping with the relief effort The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2023
What’s happening in Libya after devastating Storm Daniel floods? Rescue efforts could be complicated by the fact that Libya has two rival governments to the east and the west. Al Jazeera · Sep 12, 2023
Thousands dead, missing as floods devastate eastern Libya At least 2,200 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating entire neighbourhoods. France 24 · Sep 12, 2023
In pictures: Quarter of coastal Libyan city wiped out in deadly flooding Catastrophic storm floods have killed at least 2,300 people in the coastal city of Derna, Libyan emergency services said Tuesday, as local officials said around a quarter of the eastern city was wiped away when a dam burst. France 24 · Sep 12, 2023
Al Jazeera · Sep 12, 2023 Death toll in Libya floods nearly 3,000 after Storm Daniel Up to 10,000 people are missing and about twice as many have been displaced.
The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023 Libya flood: 10,000 missing and 3,000 feared dead as Storm Daniel sends wall of water through city of Derna ‘The situation is catastrophic. Hospitals are filled with bodies and there are areas we have yet to reach’
The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023 Rescue teams retrieve hundreds of bodies in Derna, one of the Libyan cities devastated by floods Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that's been inundated by devastating floods
Evening Standard · Sep 12, 2023 Libya floods: More than 5,000 people dead in ‘calamity of epic proportions’ Thousands are believed to have been carried away by flood waters after two upstream dams burst
WEKU · Sep 12, 2023 Flooding creates a disaster zone in Libya from Storm Daniel The confirmed death toll from the weekend flooding did not include Derna, which was inaccessible, and many of the thousands missing there were believed carried away by waters after two dams burst.
France 24 · Sep 11, 2023 Morocco earthquake: Rescuers race against time as survivors seek shelter In tonight's edition: The psychological impact of the destruction starts to weigh heavily on Moroccans as the death toll from the country’s devastating earthquake tops 2,800. Also, Libya calls for international help after authorities say that extreme flooding around the city of Derna has cost at least 2000 lives. And…
Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2023 Storm Daniel: More than 2,000 feared dead as floods devastate eastern Libya Footage shows buildings collapsing into mud and being swept away by water
The Guardian - AU · Sep 11, 2023 Morning Mail: Police officers let off over racist comments; catastrophic floods in Libya; Morocco quake death toll rises Queensland police officers behind ‘sickening’ racist comments escape sanction; as many as 2,000 feared dead in Libyan city; the desperate wait for help in quake-hit parts of Morocco continues
The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2023 2,000 people are feared dead in flooding in eastern Libya after weekend storm, prime minister says The head of one of Libya’s rival governments says that 2,000 people are feared dead in flooding that swept through the eastern parts of the north African nation
Al Jazeera · Sep 11, 2023 ‘Bodies everywhere’: Thousands feared dead as Storm Daniel hammers Libya As many as 2,000 people have been killed and thousands more are missing after massive flooding caused by two burst dams.
France 24 · Sep 11, 2023 Hundreds feared dead, thousands missing after devastating floods hit Libya Deadly storm winds and heavy floods hit Libya over the past two days, with estimates of fatalities ranging from hundreds to thousands of people, senior officials said on Monday.