Flood-hit Libyan city counts losses as search for missing goes on

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DERNA, Libya: Residents of Derna in eastern Libya were counting their losses from a flood that devastated swathes of the coastal city as the search for the missing continued on Sa

as the search for the missing continued on Saturday for a sixth day and more bodies were pulled from the sea.

"The first thing I'm afraid of is that this will take a long time," said 44-year-old teacher Tarek Faheem al-Hasadi, whose wife and five young grandchildren were killed in the flood. He and his son survived by climbing onto the roof. A three-storey building standing opposite had been swept 60m down the road by the floodwaters, Hasadi said.

after two dams south of the city broke on Sunday night unleashing torrents of floodwater down a usually dry riverbed.

 

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