A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior says more than 5,200 people have died in floods across eastern Libya.
Another 10,000 people are thought to be missing in the floods, Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said, according to ABC News.
“The death toll is huge,” he added.
In the hardest-hit city of Derna, some 700 people were confirmed dead, and workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the devastation of the flooding. Another 1,200 were injured in a storm named Daniel.
“We issued immediate instructions to use all our capabilities, provide the needed support of all urgent medical equipment, operate medical convoys, and to allocate shelters to those who lost their homes,” said Gen Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan military group.
“We have directed the government to form a specialized committee to assess the damage, instantly begin the reconstruction of roads to facilitate transportation, restore the electricity and to…
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