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The Red Crescent says that at least 10,000 people are missing in eastern Libya after the region was devastated by floods.

In the port city of Derna, where two dams and four bridges collapsed, bodies that have been recovered are being buried in mass graves. Local emergency services had said that at least 2,300 people died there but the full scale of the disaster is still unclear.

Johr Ali is a journalist based in Istanbul and Derna native. He told Newsday: 鈥淢y friend鈥�his father and mother and sister and two brothers and newly married wife and little Fowzie, which is the name of his 8-month-old son鈥�all of his family is dead鈥�more than 8,000 people are registered dead and more than 10,000 registered lost. I suspect these numbers will rise now.鈥�

He adds it is extremely difficult getting aid to survivors: 鈥淯ntil now, the city has no electricity, no phone coverage, no internet connection, no clean water, no roads鈥�all of the roads leading to the city were taken by the flood so the city is like in a black hole.鈥�

(Picture: Shows a vehicle stuck in debris after floods were triggered when Storm Daniel hit Libya on September 12, 2023. Credit: Abdullah Mohammed Bonja / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.)

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