10,000 people missing after disaster in Libya – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

The streets are disturbingly quiet in the coastal town of Derna. The clean-up work has only just started, and people are looking for their missing family members. Cars and destroyed buildings are still there. Entire neighborhoods have been washed away at sea, and Røde Korn estimates that around 10,000 people are missing. – I just came back from Derna. It is catastrophic. There are corpses everywhere – in the sea, in the valleys and under buildings, says Minister of Aviation in Libya, Hichem Chkiouat. This weekend several towns in the north-east of Libya were hit by the storm this weekend. But Derna was the hardest hit. So far, 1,000 dead have been found there. The country’s health minister Othman Abduljalil calls the city “a ghost town”. Cars are still in piles on the coast, after “Daniel” ravaged Libya this week. Photo: Press office of the Libyan Prime Minister / AFP Dead people are said to have been scattered through the city by the blaze. That’s what Mohammed Abulammousha, spokesperson for Prime Minister Osama Hamad’s Ministry of the Interior, says. Abulammousha says he has witnessed “horrific scenes”. Rival governments Libya has struggled with unrest and conflict after former leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government was overthrown in 2011. Today, the country has two rival governments. One ruled from eastern Libya, with Prime Minister Osama Hamad at the helm. The other ruled from Tripoli, by Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibeh. The UN recognizes Dbeibeh as Libya’s head of state. Dbeibeh announced on Tuesday that he will send emergency aid to the east. The cars that are scattered around the city bear witness to the powerful forces of nature that have been at work in recent days. Photo: The press office of the Libyan Prime Minister’s residence / AFP “Biblical disaster” The terrible storm ravaged Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria last week. Rain that is usually spread over a year falls in 24 hours in Greece. The rainfall is said to have been called a biblical disaster by several Greek newspapers, and is considered the worst in the country’s history. Villages were under water – and several are said to have been “wiped off the map”, reports The Guardian.



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