Associated Press Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 7:59 a.m. | Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 7:59 a.m. DERNA, Libya — Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even ...

More information: Moshe Armon, Anatomy of a Foreseeable Disaster: Lessons from the 2023 Dam-Breaching Flood in Derna, Libya, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu2865 . www.science.org ...

12, 2023 2:03 p.m. CAIRO — Emergency workers uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could spiral with 10,000 ...

Video footage captured across the city of Derna shows wide-scale destruction following Libya's deadliest storm in decades. The storm burst dams washing multi-storey buildings with sleeping ...

Much of Libya's eastern port of Derna, which has about 100,000 residents, is underwater after two dams and four bridges collapsed. Eyewitness footage shows a torrent of water flowing past a mosque ...

The destruction appeared greatest in Derna, a city formerly held by Islamic extremists in the chaos that has gripped Libya for more than a decade and left it with crumbling and inadequate ...

East Libya Health Minister Othman Abduljaleel spoke of 27 casualties, noting that this figure did not include the victims from Derna. The Libyan disaster occurred just days after Daniel battered ...

In the Libyan city of Derna, entire neighbourhoods and their ... Hungary and Turkiye. Libya is currently governed by two rival governments in the east and west, with the prime minister of the ...

The loss still hurts today,» he says. On that night of horror, Derna, a small coastal town in the far east of Libya, became a symbol of destruction and suffering – but also of the government's ...

Crowds gathered in the Libyan city of Derna in mid-September after flooding killed thousands of people. Demonstrators demanded officials in charge of the city’s infrastructure be held ...