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Hundreds feared dead as
Storm Daniel lashes Derna

People stand in a damaged road as a powerful storm

and heavy rainfall 6ooded hit Shahhat city, Libya,
September 11, 2023. [Omar Jarhman/Reuters]

By Farah Najjar
11 Sep 2023

The Red Crescent in Benghazi says

Storm Daniel has killed at least 150
people dead in the eastern city of
Derna.

Death toll is expected to rise after

water levels in the city rose as high
as three metres (10 feet).

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36m ago (16:51 GMT)

Other affected cities include

Benghazi, damage across
eastern Libya
Storm Daniel has also hit the cities
of Benghazi, Susa, Bayda, and al-
Marj.

At least 12 people have been report-

ed dead in the eastern town of Bay-
da, the town’s main medical centre
said.

Another seven people were reported

dead in the coastal town of Susa in
northeastern Libya, according to the
Ambulance and Emergency Authori-
ty.

Seven others were reported dead in

the towns of Shahatt and Omar al-
Mokhtar.

One other person was confirmed

dead on Sunday. The man was stuck
in his car and surrounded by flood-
ing in the eastern town of al-Marj,
according to Walid al-Arfi,
spokesperson for the emergency re-
sponse agency in eastern Libya.

37m ago (16:50 GMT)

‘Entire neighbourhoods
destroyed’: AJ correspondent
Al Jazeera’s Malik Traina, reporting
from the Libyan capital Tripoli in the
country’s west, gave a description of
the geographic setting of Derna, ex-
plaining why it may possibly have
been so badly affected. “[It is] com-
pletely surrounded by mountains,
and these dams collapsed,” Traina
said.

“Some experts are saying more than

30 million cubic square metres of
water was dumped into the city, and
we’re starting to see pictures of en-
tire neighbourhoods destroyed,” he
added.

37m ago (16:50 GMT)

Death toll as high as 2,000,

says eastern PM
The Red Crescent in Benghazi said
that Storm Daniel has killed at least
150 people dead in Libya’s Derna
city, the head of the organisation in
Benghazi, Kais Fhakeri, told Al
Jazeera.

But the death toll could rise much

higher. The prime minister of one of
a self-proclaimed government in
eastern Libya, Osama Hamad, said
that more than 2,000 people have
been killed in Derna, although he did
not cite any sources.

Water levels in the city rose as high

as three metres (10 feet), after two
dams collapsed, the Derna municipal
council has said.

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