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More than 5,000 people have lost their lives and 10,000 others are missing after floods caused by storm Daniel hit eastern Libya.
The storm destroyed buildings and a quarter of the eastern coast, the town of Derna. Officials and the interior minister of the eastern Libyan administration quoted by local television have estimated a number of over 5,000 victims.
Storm Daniel swept through the Mediterranean in a country divided and devastated after more than a decade. In Derna, a city of about 125,000 people, Reuters reporters saw ruined neighborhoods and buildings and wrecked cars on mud-covered streets, Reuters reports.
Mohamad al-Qabisi, director of Wahda Hospital, said 1,700 people had died in one of the city's two districts and another 500 had died in the other district.
Reuters reporters reported that hospitals were packed with people and that people's bodies were lying on the ground, but people who were present at the hospital were struggling to identify missing family members.
Other eastern cities, including Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, were also hit by the storm. Tamer Ramadan, head of a delegation from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said the death toll would rise even more in the coming days.
"We can confirm from our independent sources of information that the number of missing persons so far is 10,000," he told reporters.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said rescue teams had been mobilized to help on the ground.
As Turkey and other countries rushed to help Libya, including lifeboats, generators and food, the distraught citizens of Derna are still searching for their loved ones.
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