More than 1,000 bodies are recovered in Derna as quarter of city ‘has disappeared’, says minister
“I am not exaggerating when I say that 25 per cent of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed.”could reach thousands, an official from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies also said on Tuesday.
Storm Daniel swept in over the Mediterranean on Sunday, swamping roads and destroying buildings in Derna, and hitting other settlements along the coast including Libya’s second biggest city of Benghazi. Libya is politically divided between east and west and public services have crumbled since a 2011 Nato-backed uprising that prompted years of conflict.
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