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In Photos: 6,000 killed, 30,000 displaced after floods wreak havoc in Libya
Updated On: 14 September, 2023 11:20 AM IST | ronak mastakar
More than 6000 people have lost their lives due to heavy flooding that caused massive devastation across Libya, reported CNN on Wednesday (Pics/AFP)
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More than 6000 people have lost their lives due to heavy flooding that caused massive devastation across Libya, reported CNN on Wednesday (Pics/AFP)
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The death toll was revised on Wednesday morning local time, according to health ministry undersecretary of the Unity Government in Tripoli, Saadeddin Abdul Wakil
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According to workers, mortuaries are overflowing in hospitals that are still closed despite the pressing need to treat disaster survivors. As per Egypt`s emigration ministry, the government buried 87 Egyptian victims who died in Libya
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Authorities fear 10,000 more people remain missing, maybe swept out to sea or buried beneath rubble strewn over the metropolis that formerly housed over 100,000 people
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The flooding in Derna has displaced over 30,000 people, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Libya. The extensive damage to the region`s infrastructure has rendered some affected areas inaccessible to humanitarian organisations, CNN reported
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Officials are digging amid mountains of wreckage for survivors and bodies in order to honour Islamic traditions that the dead should be buried within three days, according to CNN
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A photographer holds up the lights during a photo session by the Madh Island seashore. PIC/NIMESH DAVE
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