{"id":3345,"date":"2023-09-12T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/at-least-2300-dead-in-epic-libya-floods-as-10000-missing\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:52:07","slug":"at-least-2300-dead-in-epic-libya-floods-as-10000-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/at-least-2300-dead-in-epic-libya-floods-as-10000-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 2,300 dead in \u2018epic\u2019 Libya floods as 10,000 missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least 2,300 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing on Tuesday after catastrophic flash floods<\/a> broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating entire neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n

As global concern spread, multiple nations offered to urgently send aid and rescue teams to help the war-scarred country that has been overwhelmed by what one UN official labelled \u201ca calamity of epic proportions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Massive destruction shattered the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna, home to 100,000 people, where multi-storey buildings on the river banks collapsed and houses and cars vanished in the raging waters.<\/p>\n

Libyan emergency services on the ground reported an initial death toll of more than 2,300 in Derna alone and said more than 5,000 people remained missing while about 7,000 were injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation in Derna is shocking and very dramatic,\u201d said Osama Ali of the Tripoli-based Rescue and Emergency Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need more support to save lives because there are people still under the rubble and every minute counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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