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Russia said it has sent 35 emergency doctors and humanitarian aid to eastern Libya, after the country was hit by unprecedented flooding a week ago. Around 35 employees of Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations will provide medical assistance to the population affected by the floods," said the ministry in a statement on Saturday. A mobile hospital has already been sent by Russia with operating theatres and an intensive care unit. The 35 physicians will provide "qualified medical assistance" to "up to 100 people" per day at the site, the ministry said. Two dams upstream from Derna, a city of about 100,000 people in the northeast of Libya, burst last week when hurricane-strength Storm Daniel struck the country, triggering tsunami-like flooding.

Search and rescue workers walk among rubble and signs of destruction following fatal floods in Derna, Libya. Before the dams were built, Derna was hit by a series of significant floods from the river in the mid-20th century. According to the Libyan prosecutor, those responsible for managing dams in Libya had reported cracks in both of them as early as 1998. ‘Procrastination’In 2007, Kadhafi's government entrusted repair work to a Turkish company. In a 2021 report from the Libyan audit bureau, officials criticised "procrastination" on resuming repair work on the two dams.

For many Libyans, the collective grief over the more than 11,000 dead has morphed into a rallying cry for national unity in a countryblighted by 12 years of conflict and division. At least 11,300 people were killed and a further 30,000 displaced.An outpouring of support for the people of Derna followed. "The wound or pain of what happened in Derna hurt all the people from western Libya to southern Libya to eastern Libya,” he said. The Prime Minister of Libya’s Tripoli government, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, said he and his ministers were accountable for the dams' maintenance, but not the thousands of deaths caused by the flooding. Meanwhile, the speaker of Libya’s eastern administration, Aguila Saleh, said the flooding was simply an incomparable natural disaster.

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Hamad Awad sat on a blanket on an empty street with a bottle of water and bedding alongside him. "I am staying in our area trying to clean it and trying to verify who is missing," he said. Entire districts of Derna, with an estimated population of at least 120,000, were swept away or buried in brown mud. It cited the Libyan Red Crescent for the figure but a Libyan Red Crescent spokesman said it had not published a toll and referred Reuters to government spokespeople, saying "figures are changing and the Red Crescent is not responsible for this." Civil protection workers from Algeria combed through the rubble of multistorey buildings with a dog to help detect any survivors.

Aid arrives as Libya copes with flooding aftermathTunisian emergency teams recover a body during relief work in Libya's devastated city of Derna. DERNA (LIBYA) - A week after a wall of water rushed through the Libyan city of Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths, the focus turned Sunday to caring for survivors of the disaster. Aid is now arriving in the North African country as the world mobilises to help emergency services cope with the aftermath of the deadly flood. Around 9,000 people are still missing after what the WHO's Libya representative Ahmed Zouiten called "a disaster of epic proportions". The aid includes essential medicines and emergency surgical supplies, as well as body bags to allow corpses to be moved.

Tarek Fahim was taking videos of the water filling behind the dam in the Derna valley in Libya late Saturday night. Volunteers in hazmat suits scan the sea for dead bodies in Derna. Across the eastern Libyan city of Derna, thousands died and thousands more are still missing after a catastrophic flood hit the city in the early hours of Sunday. Almost all they find are dead bodies and more are believed to be under the heaps of crumbled cement. "This valley was a paradise full of pomegranate trees," one volunteer says as she waits for next drop off of bodies.

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s deadly floods have sparked a surge of solidarity and transcended political differences in a country wracked by division ever since the 2011 revolution that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. Othman Abdeljalil, the health minister in the administration that runs eastern Libya, has put the provisional death toll at 3,166. But getting aid to those who need it most is made more complicated by the east-west political split in Libya. Across the country fundraising is under way, and volunteer aid workers have rushed to the disaster area. AdvertisementThe prosecutor general visited Derna on Friday and pledged that those responsible for the disaster would be held to account.

Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea. Rescue teams search for dead bodies at a beach, in the aftermath of the floods in Derna, Libya September 16, 2023. Ibrahim al-Arabi, health minister in Libya's Tripoli-based western government, told Reuters he was certain groundwater was polluted with water mixed up with corpses, dead animals, refuse and chemical substances. The Norwegian Refugee Council, which has a team of 100 in Libya, said dead body management was the most pressing concern. The ICRC sent a cargo flight to Benghazi, eastern Libya's largest city, on Friday with 5,000 body bags.

Recovery efforts continue amid staggering scope of death, destruction from Libya flooding The catastrophic flooding in the Libyan city of Derna earlier this week has killed at least 11,000 people, and the death toll is expected to rise. Many residents are returning to Derna, not to resume their lives, but identify the dead. Anna Foster reports from Libya.

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Libya's eastern city of Derna has climbed to 11,300, meanwhile, another 10,100 people are still missing in the devastated city, the United Nations informed on Saturday, citing the Libyan Red Crescent. Nearly a week after Storm Daniel hit northeastern Libya, "the humanitarian situation remains particularly grim in Derna," the update said. Severe drinking water problems have gripped the city, and at least 55 children were poisoned from drinking polluted water, it said. Two dams upstream from Derna burst a week ago under the pressure of torrential rains from the hurricane-strength Storm Daniel. International aid is arriving from the United Nations, Europe and the Middle East, offering some relief to the thousands of survivors.

By Euronews with AFPThe WHO has urged authorities in Derna to stop burying flood victims in mass graves, highlighting the potential health risks if located near water and the distress it could cause families. Rescue teams in the coastal city of Derna are still searching for bodies almost a week after a devastating flood killed more than 11,000 people. ADVERTISEMENTThousands of residents were washed out to sea following the collapse of two dams after extreme rainfall last Sunday. As families bury their dead, the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged authorities in Libya to stop burying flood victims in mass graves, highlighting the spread of waterborne diseases. His comments follow the announcement Friday that Libya is launching a probe into the collapse of the two dams.

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