but thousands ofjobs are at risk. in the last few hours, a bbc team in derna in libya have seen for themselves the terrible impact of the floodwaters that have washed much of the town into the mediterranean sea, and killed thousands. it s now five days since the disaster that hit derna, which is in eastern libya, along the coast from the libyan capital tripoli and the city of neghazi, and the city of benghazi, towards the egyptian border. today, our colleagues found little evidence of much international assistance. correspondent anna foster and team saw the extent of the devastation, and heard the fears over a lack of basic supplies and the likelihood of disease spreading. here s the report she s just sent us. even by night, derna s recovery teams don t sleep. as darkness falls, another body is carefully pulled from the ruins, wrapped and taken to a waiting ambulance. it is a scene that has now been repeated thousands of times. i can t describe it, when you see people s death
of them over there, who are using big diggers to search for bodies, really, now, rather than survivors, you can see them trying to do their work in the darkness. there are limited numbers of rescue vehicles. what you can get a sense of this just how much of the city has been ripped away. this area behind the was a narrow channel that ran through the centre of derna. and it is now a 100 metres car on the landscape where everything in the path of that water has just been washed away. it came down towards the sea. people, buildings, cars, so much of itjust was swept away. went tubing around the site is about to try to give you a full view of what s going on. you can see those lights in the distance. that is people crossing this torn away riverbed. there are some cars there. there are limited numbers of rescue vehicles, very limited aid. in fact, all that we ve seen here today on the way to derna has been local libyans. it s been people in pick up trucks with mattresses in the ba
rubble, trying to look, possibly, four survivors from the devastating quake that hit the country. we now know that the 6.8 magnitude quake that struck late on friday killed at least 2900 people, and injured many, many thousands more. what we are seeing is teams from around the world now that have arrived to health, digging through the rubble, searching for some kind of survivors. it is the army that is leading relief efforts, but they are being backed up by groups and teams from four other countries. it s really difficult out here, it is a mountainous and steep area in the atlas mountains. roads have been damaged, infrastructure as well, making it very difficult to get some of these areas that we are focusing on, one of the worst hit areas as this search continues. we will continue to go return to morocco later. let s take you out to libya. it is a scene of absolute devastation, in the town of derna. these are the latest pictures we have. we now know 5000 people have died the