Derna, Libya – AFP Libya’s eastern city of Derna was counting its dead Wednesday after devastating flash floods unleashed by Storm Daniel with the Red Cross warning that 10,000 are missing. Two river dams burst after the storm hit on Sunday afternoon, releasing an enormous surge of water that tore through the Mediterranean coastal ...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP Three Red Crescent volunteers have died while helping victims of devastating freak floods in the eastern Libya, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said. “Heartbreaking news from Libya. Three volunteers from (the Libya Red Crescent) lost their lives while on duty he...
ANKARA (AA) – The EU has offered assistance to Libya, where catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel have killed over 5300 people. “Harrowing images from Libya following deaths & destruction caused by floods, especially in the East of the country,” EU Council chief Charles Michel wrote on X, and expressed the EU’s ...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – At least 5,300 people have been killed by devastating floods in Libya’s eastern city of Derna, the country’s Ambulance and Emergency Service has said. “Around 5,000 other people have gone missing after the floods,” Osama Ali, a spokesman for the service, told the media. Libyan officials estimate that more than 5,300...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP/AA The death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warned on Tuesday. Officials in Libya have said at least 150 people were killed in the flooding in Libya after storm Daniel swept the Mediterranean, lashing Turkey, Bulgaria and Gre...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The head of Libya’s Tripoli-based unity government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of deadly floods that have ravaged the North African country. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting in Tripoli, Dbeibeh said flags will be flown at half-staff on all public buildings duri...
Okara, Pakistan — AFP The coursing floods in eastern Pakistan first swallowed Nasreen Bibi’s corn crop, then the cattle that fed on it, and finally her family home. They retreated to the roof to escape the rising water, before fleeing for their lives by boat. “We didn’t bring any of our belongings with us, everything [&...
Kasur, Pakistan — AFP Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan’s Punjab province, emergency services have said. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. Emergency services have been working t...
