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.
