Libyan floods: Survivors face water shortages and landmines displaced by torrents

Hamad Awad sat on a blanket on an empty street with a bottle of water and bedding alongside him. ”I am staying in our area trying to clean it and trying to verify who is missing,” he said. “Thank God for giving us patience.”

A report by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Libyan authorities had detected at least 55 children poisoned from drinking polluted water in Derna, where the homeless were surviving in makeshift shelters, schools or packed into the houses of relatives or friends.Floodwaters had shifted landmines and other ordnance left over from years of conflict, posing an extra risk to the thousands of displaced people on the move, it said.

OCHA said more than 40,000 people had been displaced, cautioning that the figure was likely much higher since access had been restricted to the worst-affected areas such as Derna, where at least 30,000 were displaced.

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