"Other eastern cities including Libya's second biggest city Benghazi, were also hit by the storm. Tamer Ramadan, head of a delegation of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said the death toll would be "huge". "We can confirm from our independent sources of information that the number of missing people is hitting 10,000 so far," he told reporters via video link. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said emergency response teams had been mobilised to help on the ground. The flooding came days after an earthquake in Morocco, another North African nation, killed over 2,900 people.
