As residents and emergency workers continued sifting Wednesday through mangled debris to collect the bodies of victims, officials put the death toll in Derna alone at more than 5,100.
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A Libyan official who visited Derna said "25% of the city has disappeared," and he expects the final toll to be "really, really big."