This handout picture provided by the office of Libya's Benghazi-based interim prime minister on Sept. 11, 2023 shows a view of destroyed vehicles and damaged buildings in the eastern city of Derna, about 290 kilometres east of Benghazi, in the wake of the Mediterranean storm "Daniel." (Credit: AFP/Handout/Media office of Libyan prime minister Benghazi)
More than 1,000 bodies have been recovered in the eastern Libyan city of Derna after it was hit by floods, a minister in the eastern administration said on Tuesday, adding it was not possible to know the overall toll at present but it would be very big.
"I returned from Derna. It is very disastrous. Bodies are lying everywhere — in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings," Hichem Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation and member of the emergency committee, told Reuters by phone.
“The number of bodies recovered in Derna is more than 1,000,” he said. He expected the final toll would be "really, really big." "I am not exaggerating when I say that 25 percent of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed."
"I returned from Derna. It is very disastrous. Bodies are lying everywhere — in the sea, in the valleys,...