{"id":2029671,"date":"2023-09-12T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-killed-in-libyan-flash-floods-after-tropical-storm\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:48:38","slug":"thousands-killed-in-libyan-flash-floods-after-tropical-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-killed-in-libyan-flash-floods-after-tropical-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical storm triggers deadly flash floods in Libya, claiming thousands of lives."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthousands-killed-in-libyan-flash-floods-after-tropical-storm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2029671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Flash Flooding in Libya Leaves Thousands Dead\u2063 and Missing<\/h2>\n<p>Flash flooding in \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/libya\">Libya<\/a> has resulted in a devastating\u2063 loss of life,\u200c with thousands of people killed and at least 10,000 still unaccounted for. Emergency services on the ground \u200bhave reported that the \u2063death toll currently stands at 2,300, but this number is \u2062expected to \u200crise.<\/p>\n<p>The catastrophic flooding\u2062 was triggered by heavy rainfall brought on by Cyclone Daniel, which has proven to be the deadliest\u2062 Mediterranean storm ever recorded. Over the course of a week, Daniel wreaked havoc\u200d across the\u2063 eastern Mediterranean, claiming numerous lives in Greece, Bulgaria, and \u2064Turkey before dissipating over Egypt on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u200dit is northeastern Libya,\u200c particularly the \u200ccoastal city of Derna, that has borne the brunt of \u200cthe damage. Home to approximately 90,000 people, Derna experienced nearly 16\u2064 inches of rainfall on Sunday and Monday, far exceeding\u2063 its average\u2063 annual rainfall of less\u200c than \u200b11 inches.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-solicits-donations-after-traveling-to-texas-to-help-people-impacted-by-storm\/\" title=\"AOC Solicits Donations After Traveling To Texas To Help People Impacted By Storm\">storm caused<\/a> the \u2063collapse of two\u2064 dams south of \u2063the city, \u2063leading to the overflow\u200b of \u2064the Wadi Derna river and the emergence of \u200b10-foot-high floodwaters, as witnessed by\u200b locals.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe damages are very serious,\u201d said Issam Abu Zureibah, the interior \u200dminister for the Tobruk government in\u200b eastern Libya. \u201cThere are areas that were swept away entirely into the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Libya has been plagued by \u200dinternal conflicts and division since the \u200doverthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi\u200c in \u20622011. The neglect of local infrastructure\u2063 resulting from\u200b these\u200c conflicts\u200d likely contributed to the dams&#8217; collapse.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_619237\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-619237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by \u200bAli\u200b Zifan Via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Derna has experienced multiple \u2062changes in control, including a\u2063 brief period under the\u200b Islamic State terror group in 2014 before being ousted by another\u200b Islamist group the \u2062following year. In\u2062 2019, the Libyan \u2064National Army (LNA) gained control of \u200cthe city after \u200bmonths of fighting. \u2064However, the LNA&#8217;s distrust \u200cof the locals has persisted,\u200b according to \u2063Jalel Harchaoui, an associate fellow at the Royal United\u2064 Services Institute for \u2064Defense \u2062and \u2062Security Studies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis\u2064 mistrust might prove calamitous\u2064 during \u2063the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-killed-in-libyan-flash-floods-after-tropical-storm\/\" title=\"Tropical storm triggers deadly flash floods in Libya, claiming thousands of lives.\">upcoming post-disaster period<\/a>,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/derna-libya-floods-storm-daniel-95379b164871d97fb74b1cd1bcb5640c\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The LNA government, along with its\u2063 U.N.-backed\u200b rival based in Tripoli and \u200bvarious \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-question-on-federal-funding-for-abortions\/\" title=\"Psaki dodges question on federal funding for abortions\">international aid groups<\/a> like the Red Crescent, has offered assistance to Derna. \u2063However, the extensive damage to roads has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-hiring-isnt-just-killing-american-competence-it-might-kill-you\/\" title=\"Woke hiring threatens American competence and your life.\">hindered evacuation efforts<\/a> and slowed down the emergency response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>be devastating for the country. The death toll from flash flooding in Libya has reached thousands, with over 10,000 individuals still missing. Emergency services report that 2,300 people have already lost their lives, and this figure is anticipated to increase. Cyclone Daniel&#8217;s torrential rainfall is to blame for the catastrophic flooding, leaving Libya in a state of despair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":2029672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}