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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 ...
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.
In a research paper published last year, hydrologist Abdelwanees A. R. Ashoor of Libya's Omar Al-Mukhtar University said repeated flooding of the seasonal riverbed, or wadi, was a threat to Derna.
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.
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.
The state-run news agency quoted Mohammed Abu-Lamousha, a spokesperson for the east Libya interior ministry, as saying that more than 5,300 people had died in Derna alone. Derna’s ambulance ...
More than 5,000 people have died following catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya, according to government and hospital officials, after heavy rain from Storm Daniel inundated the North African ...
25 April – April 2023 Libya migrant boat disasters. 11 July – Faraj Bumatari, a former finance minister, is reportedly kidnapped by the militia RADA after arriving at Mitiga airport. [5] 13 July – Production at Libya's El Feel, El Sharara and Plant 108 oilfields is down in a protest against the abduction of a former finance minister ...