Thomson ReutersRescue teams search for victims of flooding in Derna, Libya, on Sunday. Thousands are feared to have died after two dams above Derna broke due to heavy rains on Sept. 10.Thousands of people are feared to have died after two dams above Derna broke due to heavy rains on Sept. 10, bringing down residential blocks lining a usually dry river bed as people slept.
Another resident said people were at a loss over what to do next. "We still do not know anything, we are hearing rumours, some are trying to reassure us, others are saying you need to leave the city or stay here. We have no water and no resources," said the resident, who gave just one name, Wasfi.
"There is no specific number regarding the missing, because there are entire families who have died and no one came to report them, in addition to the fact that there is duplication of registration in various hospitals," said Al-Fakhry, office manager for the health minister in the east.Other Libyan officials have previously cited a death toll of more than 5,000.
Civil protection workers from Algeria combed through the rubble of multi-storey buildings with a dog to help detect any survivors.Help arrives in flood-stricken Derna from within and outside LibyaHelp arrives to search for survivors, bodies and bury the dead in flood-stricken Derna from inside and outside of Libya. The tragedy has managed to unite a country divided by warlords and factions.
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