Turned upside down or washed away. 30,000 are homeless and now danger of disease from contaminated water. Aid is heading towards derna. The logistical challenges are enormous in a place where there is now no electricity, no water or fuel. Only one of the seven Access Routes possible. Passable. To be able to move from the west part to the east part, before it was 15 kilometres. Now it is 150 kilometres to be able to move from one side to the other of the city, and this is another complication. It has been five days since the flood, the work needed barely begun. But some help is already here. Firefighters from italy have managed to reach the city, and teams from spain use dogs to search for survivors. From the air, the path of this deadly flood has reduced the landscape to bare bones. This place is uniquely difficult. Years of civil war has torn the country apart, its infrastructure left to crumble. The Authorities Say they will only accept aid that is necessary, and libyas Disaster Resp
Up to shore more than 100km away. Heres one survivor whose home was destroyed by the flooding. Translation the flood came and completely washed away l the valley, destroying everything around it. My life before was stable, everything was 100 good i had my house and my family, but now there is nothing, there is no life any more. Earlier, i spoke to our middle east correspondent lina sinjab, who gave us the latest. It is really a devastating situation, day in, day out, people are still shocked with the traumatic experience they have lived, with the loss that they have had, you know, everywhere around people are looking for bodies of their beloved ones, some families are counting, like, Tens Of Members of theirfamilies have disappeared or confirmed dead. Imagine you are sleeping in your bed and floods and the waters sweep you away into the water, this is really terrible, you know. The storm hit the city of derna, and because of the floods and the rain, you know, two dams collapsed, breaki