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meteorologicalorganisation says most of the deaths could have been avoided, if residents had been warned and given time to escape. the bbc s anna foster is in the libyan city of benghazi. something 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 far from the hive of activity that you might expect in the wake of a devastating natural disaster like this, because this is a country that s also been ravaged by more than a decade of conflict. you can see the split political allegiances in this country, and all of those things are making it incredibly difficult to get the aid to derna, where it is so desperately needed, where we still don t know how many people have died, but it could be as many as 20,000. and quentin somerville has been speaking to people in derna who witnessed what happened. her sisterfilms the her sister films the panic and outside buildings collapsed. they thought this would be
the libyan red crescent described the scene as like a bombardment and earthquake at the same time. when the dams collapsed a wall of water weighing 1.5 million tonnes crashed down the wadi derna river gouging out huge parts of the city before reaching the sea. to give you a sense of the power of that tsunami 20 centimetres of fast moving water is enough to knock adults off theirfeet here there was three metres of water sweeping away everything in its path. the human cost is colossal this man hasjust found his son and begs rescue workers not to touch him. desperate scenes repeated again and again some people have lost 30, 40 50 members of their extended family. live now to tripoli. ahmed abar is a libyan activist. he s been helping the residents of derna. what are people in the city saying to you? what are people in the city saying to ou? ., ., , , ., ., to you? unfortunately the situation is very bad. to you? unfortunately the situation is very bad.
welcome to the programme. the big story continues to develop out of libya where politicians are demanding an official investigation into floods that wiped out parts of the city of derna, after two dams collapsed during a storm at the weekend. the city s mayor says the death toll may reach 20,000. the united nations has also criticised the country s alert system. the head of the world meteorological 0rganisation says most of the deaths could have been avoided, if residents had been warned and given time to escape. the bbc s anna foster is in the libyan city of benghazi. something 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 far from the hive of activity that you might expect in the wake of a devastating natural disaster like this, because this is a country that s also been ravaged by more than a decade of conflict. you can see the split political allegiances in this country, and all of thos
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