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The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Libya's eastern city of Derna has climbed to 11,300, the United Nations said in an update on Saturday, citing the Libyan Red Crescent. Another 10,100 people are still missing in the devastated city, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, using Red Crescent figures. Elsewhere…

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The aid will be distributed to the victims of the floods that hit Libya recently.

الوكالة الوطنية للإعلامNNA - A spokesman for the Libyan Red Crescent denied on Sunday that the death toll from the floods that struck the city of Derna in the east of the country had reached 11

DERNA, Libya—Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, nearly a week after the deluge killed more than 11,000 people. It’s unclear how such an investigation can be carried…

A second Saudi relief plane departed Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, heading to Benghazi, Libya, carrying 40 tons of food assistance to be distributed to Libyans affected by the devastating floods. The aid is sent at instructions from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister. A King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) team is managing the distribution of r...

Derna (CNN) — International rescue teams in Libya are calling for more help to retrieve the bodies of victims killed in devastating floods that swept through the eastern city of

A UN report on Saturday gave a death toll of 11,300 for catastrophic flooding in the Libyan city of Derna, but a spokesperson later told The New Arab that including this figure was an 'unfortunate mistake'.

Thousands were killed after dams broke last week in the country’s northeast, displacing more than 40,000 people, and leaving survivors with a shortage of medical supplies and drinking water.

Rescue teams have been searching through huge piles of rubble in Derna on Sunday, 17 September, after devastating floods his eastern Libya this week. The extreme damage was caused by heavy rains from Mediterranean storm Daniel last weekend. More than 11,300 people died following the collapse of two dams and more than 10,000 are still missing, according to the Libyan Red Crescent. As a result of the collapse, a wall of water was sent through Derna which destroyed entire neighbourhoods and swept p...