A bursting river destroyed houses on the banks
Libya's parallel PM says 2,000 dead in eastern floods
Hamad says that the missing are in the thousands in Storm Daniel and flooding.
Monday 11/09/2023
A bursting river destroyed houses on the banks
BENGHAZI - The head of Libya's eastern parliament-backed government said more than 2,000 people had died in a storm and flooding during a phone interview with a local television station.
Osama Hamad told the television news presenter on al-Masar channel: "The missing are in the thousands, and the dead exceed 2,000."
Hamad did not give the source for the figures of the dead and missing.
Footage on social media showed people stranded on the roofs of their vehicles while trying get help in heavy floods as Storm Daniel hit the cities of Benghazi, Sousse, Al Bayda, Al-Marj and Derna.
Authorities declared a state of extreme emergency, closing schools and stores and imposing a curfew as the storm hit on Sunday and Monday.