© 2020 – 2023 AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
News

‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000

Full scale of devastation in north African nation still not clear as aid agencies struggle to reach cut-off areas

International aid is slowly starting to reach the devastated port city of Derna as an inquest starts into how as many as 20,000 people might have perished when Storm Daniel hit the northern coast of Libya on Saturday night.

Ten thousand people had been declared missing by official aid agencies such as the Libyan Red Crescent, but the new, ominous higher estimate of 20,000 deaths came from the director of Al-Bayda Medical Center, Abdul Rahim Maziq.

Continue reading…

Related posts

Call for watchdog to reinvestigate Tory peer over possible PPE lobbying breach

AEA3

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainians advance on Lyman after Putin’s illegal annexations – live

AEA3

Trump says tax returns release will ‘lead to horrible things for so many people’ – live

AEA3

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This