The wall of water several stories high smashed into apartment buildings, drowning entire families in minutes. While many towns in eastern Libya saw deadly flooding, Derna, renowned for its white villas and palm trees, was the worst-hit. Fadelallah said all 13 deceased members of his family lived in a neighborhood near the river valley. “They were screaming, help, help,” he said over the phone from a field hospital in Derna. “The city itself has gone.”Mahmoud al-Baseer’s cousins lived less than kilometer (about half a mile) from one of the dams.

Source: Libya Today September 14, 2023 16:53 UTC