BBCNEWS Verified July 3, 2024
The flooding may have killed up to 20,000 people based on the amount of the city thats been destroyed. He said, they desperately need teams that specialise in recovering bodies saying he feared the city risked an epidemic of infection from the large number of bodies under the rubble and in the water. The libyan red crescent described the scene, as like a � bombardment and earthquake� at the same time. When the dams collapsed a wall of water weighing one and a half Million Tonnes crashed down the wadi derna river gouging out huge parts of the city, before reaching the sea. To give you a sen...