Swathes of the Mediterranean city were obliterated by a torrent of water unleashed by a powerful storm that swept down a usually dry riverbed on Sunday night, bursting dams above the city. Multi-storey buildings collapsed with sleeping families inside.
Husadi, who had been working the night of the storm, dialled his wife's phone number once again. It was switched off."We lost at least 50 members from my father’s family, between missing and dead," he said. "I survived with my wife but I lost my sister," Mohamed Mohsen Bujmila, a 41-year-old engineer, said."My sister lives downtown where most of the destruction happened. We found the bodies of her husband and son and buried them."As he spoke an Egyptian search-and-rescue team nearby recovered the body of his neighbour."This is Aunt Khadija, may God grant her heaven," Bujmila said.
Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television the estimated the number of deaths in the city could reach 18,000 to 20,000 based on the number of districts destroyed by the flood. Türkiye is also sending a ship carrying equipment to set up two field hospitals and 148 medical staff to help with the rescue efforts.
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