Who is responsible?.. ‘We can be 100% sure that the derelict state of Derna Wadi’s 2 dams would have been unthinkable if Gadaffi’s rich and ‘water savvy’ Libya had not been totally destroyed by the terrorist NATO war machine…‘
At least 5,300 people reported dead and 10,000 are missing.
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A general view of the city of Derna is seen on September 12, 2023 © AP / Jamal Alkomaty
Massive flash flooding brought on by a fierce Mediterranean storm that wrecked dams and swept whole neighborhoods into the sea as it lashed Libya on Monday has left at least 5,300 people dead, according to the latest government estimate.
Libya faces catastrophic flooding death toll
State-run media outlet LANA reported on Tuesday that the divided country’s eastern government, based in Tobruk, announced the updated death toll through its interior ministry and pegged the number of people still missing at 10,000. As many as 6,000 people are reportedly unaccounted for in the coastal city of Derna in northeastern Libya alone.
The storm caused two dams to collapse, sending a wall of water rushing through a wadi toward Derna, which had already been inundated with rain. Many of the city’s buildings, including entire neighborhoods, were washed away. Derna has a population of about 125,000.
The worst flooding from Storm Daniel was in the port city of Derna (population 90,000), where the failures of the nearby Derna and Abu Mansur dams, both about 50 years old, allowed a wall of water to rip through the heart of town along the Wadi Derna, which is a dry riverbed during much of the year.
Lack of maintenance of the Derna-area dams further raised the risk of this week’s catastrophe. As reported by Sky News, research published last year by civil engineer Abdelwanees A R Ashoor (Omar al Mukhtar University) warned that the city’s naturally flood-prone landscape would lead to disaster if the local dams were not properly maintained citing five floods since 1942.
His paper called for immediate steps to ensure regular maintenance of the dams and added: “If a huge flood happens the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city.”
Before NATO destroyed the Libyan state in 2011 it was a rich and successful country, and had just completed the third of 5 stages of the amazing Great Man-Made River Project, Gaddafi’s prestigious project to green the country.
“The network of concrete pipes, which each have a diameter of 4 meters each, stretch more than 3500 kilometers. These pipes are hidden beneath the wilderness of the desert to stop vaporization of the water. There are more than 1000 wells, countless sections of concrete pipes, and 250 million cubic meters of excavation. “
NATO carpet bombed Libya and financed and armed jihadi groups to destroy Gadaffi’s dreams and try to steal the oil, reducing the country to penury and ending construction and maintenance.
Who is responsible for the massive death toll?.. We can be 100% sure that the derelict state of Derna Wadi’s 2 dams would have been unthinkable if Gadaffi’s rich and ‘water savvy’ Libya had not been totally destroyed by the terrorist NATO war machine.
The first dam is about 12km upstream from the city where two river valleys converge, and footage has shown it has been completely destroyed.
After breaching the first dam, the floodwater continued downstream along the canyon, sweeping away roads, bridges and buildings, and the second, smashing into and through the city, tearing down whole apartment blocks and washing them into the sea.
“Bodies are lying everywhere – in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings,” civil aviation minister Hichem Abu Chkiouat told Reuters on Tuesday. “I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed.”
TALE OF A NEGLECTED CITY
In the aftermath of Gaddafi’s NATO orchestrated murder in 2011, Derna disintegrated into a hub for Islamist extremist groups, was bombarded by Egyptian airstrikes and later besieged by forces loyal to Hiftar. The city was taken by Hiftar’s forces in 2019 but he reportedly remained suspicious and refused investment.
Like other cities in the east of the country, it has not seen much rebuilding or investment since the revolution. Most of its modern infrastructure was constructed during the Gaddafi era, including the toppled Wadi Derna damS, built by a Yugoslav company in the mid 1970s.
Hospitals in Derna have reportedly been knocked out of commission, and their morgues are full. Dead bodies are left on sidewalks outside the morgues, Dr. Anas Barghathy, who is doing volunteer work in Derna, told CNN. “There are no firsthand emergency services,” he said. “People are working at the moment to collect the bodies.”
Türkiye’s government has dispatched humanitarian aid and search and rescue teams to Benghazi to help in the relief effort. Italy and France are among the European countries that have pledged assistance to Libya.
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Thousands feared dead after storm in eastern Libya
The disaster came just three days after another North African country, Morocco, was hammered by an earthquake. The death toll there is over 2,900 and counting, making it the country’s deadliest earthquake since at least 1960.
Recovery efforts could be hindered by Libya’s divided chaos. The country has been split into two competing administrations since 2014, a division that occurred after the assassination of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi during a NATO-led terror invasion and bombing campaign in 2011.
Most aid may have to go via Tripoli, negotiating with the rival administration, backed by the Libyan parliament, operating from Tobruk.
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