Upwards of ten thousand may be lost due to flooding as a result of Storm Daniel. Looks like two dams may have broke causing a torrent of water submerging entire buildings. Prayers for those lost and the ones remaining. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/12/libya-storm-daniel-derna-flooding/
These numbers are heartbreaking How many people have been killed? As of Thursday, the Libyan Red Crescent said that 11,300 people have been killed, and a further 10,100 are reported missing. However, local officials suggested that the death toll could be much higher than announced. In comments to the Saudi-owned Al Arabia television station on Thursday, Derna Mayor Abdel-Moneim al-Ghaithi said the tally could climb to 20,000 given the number of neighborhoods that were washed out. The storm also killed around 170 people in other parts of eastern Libya.
I never know if this is a sign of global warming or if it’s just that everything in the world gets almost instantaneously reported.
