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Emergency teams are working to find survivors and retrieve bodies after a massive flood hit Libya’s northeast three days ago, killing at least 11,000 people and leaving 10,000 missing.
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel. The dam collapses released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [5] [6] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
Libya Flood Damage (Planet Labs PBC) Derna, a city of around 100,000 people on Libya’s north coast, faced the worst of the destruction when two dams collapsed this week in the face of huge ...
Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was the deadliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone in recorded history, as well as one of the costliest tropical cyclones on record outside of the north Atlantic Ocean. Forming as a low-pressure system around 4 September 2023, the storm affected Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey with extensive flooding.
A view of buildings damaged in the flood due to Storm Daniel in Derna, Libya on September 14, 2023. (Hamza Al Ahmar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Floodwaters from Storm Daniel are visible in Derna, Libya, on Sept. 12. Credit - Jamal Alkomaty—AP. I n Derna, the city on the coast of Libya all but swept away by flooding on Sept. 11, the ...
CNN has approached both organizations for comment and is unable to verify the two conflicting figures. More than 40,000 people have been displaced across northeastern Libya since the extreme ...
License Plate Code. 10. Derna ( / ˈdɜːrnə /; Arabic: درنة Darnah) is a port city in eastern Libya. With a population of around 90,000, [ 1] Derna was once the seat of one of the wealthiest provinces among the Barbary States. The city is now the administrative capital of Derna District, which covers a much smaller area than the old province.