The situation in Libya remains grim as the death toll rises to over 2,000 after a devastating rain storm broke the river dams and tore through eastern coastal city, destroying entire neighbourhoods.
Emergency reports has it that about 2,300 people have died, over 10,000 missing persons and 7, 000 injured.
This has attracted global as world leaders continue to express their heartfelt messages to the Libyan leader Mohammed-El Menfi , and the entire country, and offering to urgently send relief materials and aid as well as rescue teams to help; in what the United Nations officials described as a “calamity of epic proportion.”
Derna, with skyscrapers, buildings on the river banks and home to about 100,000 people was worst hit by the flood, as buildings collapsed and houses and cars disappeared in the raging flood.
“The situation in Derna is shocking and very dramatic,” said Osama Ali of the Tripoli-based Rescue and Emergency Service. “We need more support to save lives because there are people still under the rubble and every minute counts.
The floods were caused by torrential rains from Storm Daniel, which made landfall in Libya on Sunday after earlier lashing Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.