Aid workers who managed to reach the city described devastation in its centre.
Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea on Wednesday to look for bodies in a coastal Libyan city where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed at least 5,100 people.
“Bodies are everywhere, inside houses, in the streets, at sea. Wherever you go, you find dead men, women, and children,” Emad al-Falah, an aid worker from Benghazi, said over the phone from Derna, adding search teams went through shattered apartment buildings and retrieved the dead floating offshore in the Mediterranean Sea.Mediterranean storm Daniel caused deadly flooding on Sunday in many towns of eastern Libya, but the worst-hit was Derna.
At least 5,100 deaths were recorded in Derna, along with around 100 others elsewhere in eastern Libya The UK and German governments sent assistance too, including blankets, sleeping bags, sleeping mats, tents, water filters and generators.
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