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The catastrophe of the century is playing out in Libya! Cyclone Daniel swept across Libya, causing devastating rains and flooding that destroyed homes, killed more than 6,000 people, left at least 10,000 missing, and displaced more than 40,000.
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The hardest-hit city of Derna, is littered with the bodies of the victims, "all over the sea, under the buildings." Sandos Shuwaib, a local resident, said on social platforms that she was at home when she was suddenly washed away by floodwaters, "There are bodies next to me, bodies above me, and bodies below me." "Sandos ended up being washed into shallow water and taken to hospital." I don't know what happened, my family is missing. ”
Mustafa Salem, a 39-year-old local resident, said he lost 30 of his loved ones at once, "most of them were sleeping, everyone was unprepared." ”
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What is desperate escape?
The peak water rise rate is one meter per minute, and the urban plain is completely flooded within minutes. People near the river beach don't even have a chance to escape! Residents outside the river beach also have only a minute or two to escape.
When the flood peak arrived, it was at night. "People fall asleep and wake up to find their homes surrounded by water." A resident told Reuters.
It is no exaggeration to say that the hardest hit city in Derna, where a quarter of the city was flooded or submerged. On the way to Derna, vehicles can be seen toppling on the side of the road, trees destroyed, and houses flooded. AFP reported that two dams upstream of Derna collapsed, major bridges were washed away, multi-storey buildings on river banks collapsed and houses disappeared into the raging sea.
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What happened to our planet? There are catastrophe everywhere, either here or there.