through the city and out to sea. now to give you a sense of the power of that reverse tsunami 20 centimetres of fast moving water, is enough to knock adults off theirfeet here you had three metres of water sweeping everything in its path. it is an appalling loss of life the man in these pictures had onlyjust found his son, and was begging rescue workers not to move him. desperate scenes repeated again and again there are some people who have lost 30 50 members of their extended family. here s one survivor describing what he went through. translation: we woke up at around 3-3.30am, i we heard a large bang. anyone who was awake in derna for sure must ve heard it. the water was unbelievable, everyone could hear it coming. when we went outside, the city was gone, it had been raised to the ground. well, to begin with, there are around 14 15 families which were swept away by the sea. anyone who was in the valley was just swept away. nine other people who live directly o
these drone pictures the scale of these drone pictures the scale of the devastation in that city. but we have had an interview with the mayor of derna and he has said as many as 20,000 people may have been killed there. several of the city s districts were destroyed. it all happened when two dams burst on sunday and when that happened this huge surge of water was released from the dams. look at these pictures here, entire neighbourhoods were completely flooded and submerged when those two dams collapsed. the images give you just a small sense of how these houses and their buildings in these neighbourhoods, some of them have been swept away, some of them just completely submerged by the torrents of water. i mentioned the united nations criticising the fact that there were not early warning systems in place. the meteorological branch has said it previously did attempt to assist the libyan authorities. they wanted to try and reform the meteorological system, but these efforts we
four year old is taken to hospital following an attack. it s prompted calls for more responsible dog ownership. good evening. the un says thousands of deaths could have been avoided in libya if the authorities had passed on warnings to the people in the coastal city of derna. derna, with its population of 100,000, was the hardest hit more than 5,000 are known to have died but many thousands more are still missing. 0ur correspondent anna foster has just arrived in libya in the coastal city of benghazi. that s where desperately needed aid is arriving too and shejoins me now. 0ne one thing that becomes very quickly apparent is how big the scale of the task facing libya is right now. benghazi is a small airport and it is farfrom the benghazi is a small airport and it is far from the hive of activity you might expect in the wake of a devastating natural disaster like this because this is a country ravaged by more than a decade of conflict. you can see the split political allegia
as 20,000. the head of the un s world meteorological organization has criticised the warning systems that were in place. here s what petteri taalas told journalists a short time ago. if it had been a normally operating meteorological service they would have been warnings and also the emergency management would have carried out the evacuation of the people and they could have avoided most of the human casualties. and of course we cannot fully avoid losses but we could have avoided some by having proper services in place. sadly, as we ve seen, large areas of derna were destroyed when two dams burst on sunday releasing that huge tsumani like surge of water. this drone video shows entire neighbourhoods under water. the images give a small sense of how those houses and buildings were swept away in the torrents of water that rushed through the city. locals told the bbc they didn t know the full extent of the danger that storm daniel posed. and now if i show you this, from another d