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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…

Authorities in eastern Libya said at least 2,000 people were killed and thousands more were missing after a massive flood ripped through the city of Derna following a heavy storm and rain.

At least 2,300 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.As global concern spread, multiple nations offered to urgently send aid and rescue teams to help the war-scarred country that has been overwhelmed by what one UN official labelled "a calamity of epic proportions".

Thousands are feared dead in Libya after Storm Daniel battered the country. Read more here the effects of the bad weather, including the collapse of two dams in Derna.

Heavy flows wash away cars, collapse roads as water level crosses three metres in urban areas

Mohammed Mokhtar Gomaa, the Egyptian minister of religious endowments, confirmed that the time has come to put the outcomes of the climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh into practice and to join international efforts to confront the challenges of climate change and its devastating effects.

In a catastrophe recalling Hurricane Katrina, a heavy storm burst through dams to unleash their waters on the city of Derna, sweeping away entire neighborhoods.

The search is still ongoing for the missing people that were swept away by strong floods which caused the collapse of a number of dams and buildings and damaged private and public establishments. The number of affected people is very big, the damage is huge, its hard to describe or measure it."

A frenetic search for survivors — or bodies — ensued in eastern Libya on Tuesday after a Mediterranean storm lashed the OPEC member’s shores, with dams collapsing and triggering floods

Oil prices moved sharply higher on Tuesday, lifting the futures contract to a 10-month closing high. With traders betting on a likely shortfall in supply following the recent decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to extend their voluntary output cuts to the end of the year, oil prices surged higher today.