TUFKAK Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 'Catastrophic' flooding hits Libya as dam collapse washes neighborhoods into sea, say officials | CNN EDITION.CNN.COM More than 2,000 people are feared dead in Libya, according to an eastern Libyan leader, after Storm Daniel brought severe rain and floods to the eastern part of the country, which... Quote Around 2,000 people have died and 10,000 are believed missing after Storm Daniel dumped so much rain on Libya’s northeast that two dams collapsed sending water flowing into already inundated areas. “The death toll is huge and around 10,000 are reported missing,” Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) delegation in Libya, said Tuesday during a press briefing in Geneva. As many as 6,000 people are missing from the eastern city of Derna alone, Othman Abduljalil, health minister in Libya’s eastern parliament-backed government, told Libya’s Almasar TV. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 Mother nature is hitting hard lately. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Derek said: Mother nature is hitting hard lately. Does she have any other choice but to retaliate, what with the gays and now EVs?! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 That's a pretty crazy number I don't really know what the range of deaths is these days for natural disasters, but that has to be up there, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted September 12, 2023 Author Share Posted September 12, 2023 I can’t think of a worse way to die Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 Libya floods: Derna city looks like a tsunami hit it - minister WWW.BBC.COM Hundreds are dead and thousands are missing after much of Derna became submerged in floodwater. Quote Ahead of the storm, the authorities in Derna had imposed an overnight curfew on Sunday ordering people not to leave their houses as part of precautionary measures. Water engineering experts have told the BBC it is likely that the upper dam, around 12km (eight miles) from the city, failed first - its water sweeping down the river valley towards the second dam, which is estimated to be about one kilometre from the low-lying part of Derna, where neighbourhoods were inundated. Mr Chkiouat had told Reuters news agency earlier that a quarter of the city had disappeared. Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Libya, has told reporters the death toll is likely to be "huge". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 The order to remain in homes that would be obliterated by a flood as the flood approached is horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Before/after satellite photos: 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Fatalities are now estimated to be at least 5,000. More than 5,000 presumed dead in Libya after 'catastrophic' flooding breaks dams and sweeps away homes | CNN WWW.CNN.COM More than 5,000 people have died and 10,000 are believed missing after Storm Daniel dumped so much rain on Libya’s northeast that two dams collapsed sending water flowing into already inundated areas. Quote More than 5,000 people are presumed dead and 10,000 missing after heavy rains in northeastern Libya caused two dams to collapse, surging more water into already inundated areas. Tamer Ramadan, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation in Libya, gave the numbers of missing people during a briefing to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. “The death toll is huge,” she said. At least 5,300 people are thought dead, said the interior ministry of Libya’s eastern government on Tuesday, state media LANA reported. CNN has not been able to independently verify the number of deaths or those missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 My gods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fizzzzle Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 This is heartbreaking. The lone bit of good news is that international organizations seem to be putting aside which Libyan government is the 'real' one for the time being to help people. ... of course anyone from Haiti can tell you how corrupt organizations that 'help people' are, but... at least it's something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 We’re clearly living in the end times. Except it might just be climate change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Holy shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Deadly fire in Hawaii, deadly earthquake in Morocco, and now a massive flood. Do I want to know what could be next? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 46 minutes ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said: We’re clearly living in the end times. Except it might just be climate change. What’s the difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Spork3245 said: What’s the difference? liburl teras! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in Libya's coastal city of Derna, aid group says APNEWS.COM The Libyan city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves as search teams scoured the area after devastating floods that killed at least 5,100 people, a health official said Thursday. Quote The death toll in Libya’s coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday Marie el-Drese, the aid group’s secretary-general, told The Associated Press by phone that a further 10,100 people are reported missing in the Mediterranean city. Health authorities previously put the death toll in Derna at 5,500. The storm also killed about 170 people elsewhere in the country. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 Libyans call for inquiry as fury grows over death toll from catastrophic floods | Libya flood (2023) | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Attorney general asked to investigate amid allegations warnings ignored about dangerous state of two dams Quote Libya’s attorney general has been asked by senior politicians to launch an urgent inquiry into the catastrophic floods that have killed tens of thousands of people, including into allegations local officials imposed a curfew on the night Storm Daniel struck. The Libyan Red Crescent put the death toll at more than 11,000 people, with nearly 20,000 still missing, the highest estimate yet from an official source. It said almost 2,000 bodies were swept into the sea by the floods. Officials in the port city of Derna including the mayor, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi, believe 20,000 people may have died. At least 5,500 people have been confirmed dead. Many have been buried in mass graves but one of the chief shortages in the city, apart from drinking water, is body bags required to prevent disease spreading from unburied bodies. Rescue teams have been able to enter the city and are scouring rubble and ruins left by the floods. The call for the inquiry came separately from both sides of a country divided between rival eastern and western administrations: Libya’s presidential council chair, Mohamed al-Menfi, in the east, and the interim prime minister of the Tripoli-based government, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba. Menfi said he wanted the inquiry “to hold accountable everyone who made a mistake or neglected by abstaining or taking actions that resulted in the collapse of the city’s dams”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 On 9/13/2023 at 6:51 AM, DarkStar189 said: Deadly fire in Hawaii, deadly earthquake in Morocco, and now a massive flood. Do I want to know what could be next? Blow your trumpets Gabriel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 If the dams were not there to begin with, I wonder if the death toll would have been so high? I don't know about the construction methods of these dams, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were poorly maintained or designed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 This just keeps getting sadder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 12 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: If the dams were not there to begin with, I wonder if the death toll would have been so high? I don't know about the construction methods of these dams, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were poorly maintained or designed. While any sort of valley/flood plain will exacerbate floods, the dams almost certainly made it worse—there was the rainfall plus the already stored water that was released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 This is beyond devastating. That Before/after satellite photos is so scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Libyan authorities seal off most of flood-hit Derna in effort to limit deaths | Libya | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Only emergency workers to be allowed into devastated area over fears of contamination from dead bodies in limited water supply Quote Libyan authorities have largely sealed off the flood-devastated port town of Derna from civilians in an effort to give space to emergency aid workers and amid concern that contamination of standing water may add to the already horrific death toll. Salem Al-Ferjani, director general of the ambulance and emergency service in eastern Libya, said that only search and rescue teams would be allowed to enter parts of the town most affected by the flooding that has left at least 11,000 dead according to official projections. Many citizens have already left the town voluntarily. The plan to shut off the town came after the Libyan Red Crescent raised its estimate of the number of dead and missing. The UN has launched an appeal for $71m and said 884,000 people had been affected by the floods that hit north-east Libya early on Sunday morning.``` Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 Eastern Libya orders journalists out of flood-hit Derna after protests | Libya floods 2023 | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Media crackdown follows reports that police officers had detained and questioned Libyan reporters Quote Libya’s eastern government has ordered journalists to leave Derna after angry protests against the authorities a week after a flood killed thousands of residents. Hundreds of people gathered on Monday outside Sahaba mosque in the city, chanting slogans. Some sat on its gold-domed roof. Later in the evening, a crowd set fire to the house of the man who was Derna’s mayor at the time of the disaster, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi. The protesters blame the authorities for the destruction, during which most of the city centre was washed away. At least 4,000 people have been confirmed dead, with a further 4,300 missing. Nearly 40,000 have been left homeless, according to the International Organisation for Migration. Residents want an independent inquiry on what went wrong, and for the city to be rebuilt under international supervision. The demands received extensive media coverage. Unusually, national TV channels opposed to the authorities were able to broadcast from Derna. Hichem Abu Chkiouat, a minister in the eastern government, said on Tuesday his government had instructed local and foreign journalists to leave the city by 1pm. According to reports, Derna’s internet and mobile networks had been switched off. Chkiouat said the measure was necessary because large numbers of reporters were impeding rescue work. Officials cited health reasons and the fear of an epidemic – a claim denied by the Tripoli-based National Centre of Disease Control. The protests: Libya flood: Derna mayor's house burnt down in protests WWW.BBC.COM Derna's mayor is targeted a week after devastating floods many residents blame on incompetence. Quote The mayor's home in the Libyan city of Derna has been burnt to the ground, as hundreds of protesters demanded answers for last week's catastrophic flood. They gathered on Monday night at the city's landmark Sahaba Mosque, many chanting for top officials in Libya's eastern government to be sacked. Derna's whole city council has now been dismissed. Internet and telephone access have also been shut down and journalists ordered to leave in a media crackdown. More than 10,000 people are officially missing after two old and dilapidated dams burst, flooding the city. Figures given for the number of people known to have died have varied widely but the UN says it has confirmed close to 4,000 deaths. The home of Derna's mayor, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi, has become a focal point for people's anger. Residents say they were not sufficiently warned by officials, who they believe must have known a huge amount of rainfall was coming. They say they were also given a stay-at-home warning rather than being told to evacuate, although officials deny this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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