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.

Source: Libya Today September 17, 2023 04:42 UTC