More than 5,000 people are presumed dead and 10,000 missing after heavy rains in northeastern Libya caused two dams to collapse, surging more water into already inundated areas.
Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation in Libya, gave the numbers of missing people during a briefing to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. "The death toll is huge," she said.
Ayah, a Palestinian woman with cousins in Derna, said she has been unable to reach them since the floods. "The warmer water does not only fuel those storms in terms of rainfall intensity, it also makes them more ferocious," Karsten Haustein, climate scientist and meteorologist at Leipzig University in Germany, told the Science Media Center.
The country's complex politics "pose challenges for developing risk communication and hazard assessment strategies, coordinating rescue operations, and also potentially for maintenance of critical infrastructure such as dams," Leslie Mabon, lecturer in Environmental Systems at The Open University, told the Science Media Center.The collapse of two dams, which sent water rushing towards Derna, has caused catastrophic damage, authorities said Tuesday.
Libya is facing an "unprecedented" situation, said Hamad, the head of the eastern administration, according to a report from state news organization Libyan News Agency.
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