Libya floods: Search for missing continues as more bodies pulled from sea

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More than 1,000 people have been buried in mass graves

, drawing warnings from aid groups about the risk of contaminating water or causing mental distress to families of the deceased.Muammar GaddafiIt was controlled for several years by jihadist militants before forces loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army besieged and took control of the city in 2019.

Infrastructure across Libya has been degraded amid the political paralysis of the past decade, and experts had warned that Derna faced potential disaster if maintenance work was not carried out on the dams outside the city. Libya's continuing political divisions, with rival administrations and parliaments in the east and west, could hamper the aid effort.

 

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