{"id":2030133,"date":"2023-09-13T04:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libya-floods-at-least-5000-believed-dead\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T04:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:04:05","slug":"libya-floods-at-least-5000-believed-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libya-floods-at-least-5000-believed-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 5,000 feared dead in Libya floods."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Flibya-floods-at-least-5000-believed-dead%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=2030133&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>Rescue Efforts Underway in Eastern Libya After Devastating Storm<\/h2>\n<p>Rescue workers\u2062 are tirelessly working to \u200bsave and recover thousands of lives in eastern Libya, where the \u200dpowerful Mediterranean storm Daniel has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-drone-firefighters-in-ukraine\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show \u2018Drone Firefighters\u2019 In Ukraine?\">caused widespread destruction<\/a> in a country already \u200cgrappling with instability.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Massive Flooding and Unaccounted Lives<\/h3>\n<p>Emergency workers have made a grim discovery, locating 1,500 \u200cbodies in Derna, Libya. However, the true extent of the tragedy is still unknown, as thousands more\u2064 remain missing after massive floods destroyed dams \u2062and swept through \u200dentire neighborhoods \u2064in and around the city.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On \u2062Sunday night, disaster struck \u2063as \u200cthe dams\u200b outside the neighborhoods collapsed, unleashing a torrent of water. The already fragile infrastructure of\u200d the region, coupled with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-clears-path-for-new-sanctions-amid-violence-in-sudan\/\" title=\"Biden allows new sanctions amid Sudan violence.\">ongoing power struggle<\/a> between rival factions, worsened the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Devastation \u2063and Displacement<\/h3>\n<p>The destruction of the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/volunteer-stabbed-with-ice-pick-while-canvassing-for-new-york-mayor-candidate-eric-adams\/\" title=\"Volunteer Stabbed With Ice Pick While Canvassing For New York Mayor Candidate Eric Adams\">dams led<\/a> \u200cto flash floods pouring down Wadi Derna, a river that runs through the city. The force of the water\u2062 and mud\u200c carried away structures, displacing over 40,000 people.\u2064 Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and \u200bRed Crescent Societies, describes the situation as &#8220;as devastating as the situation in\u2062 Morocco,&#8221; \u2063where an earthquake has claimed the lives of approximately 3,000 people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The United States State Department expressed its condolences\u2062 and offered assistance to Libya \u2064in a statement released on Monday. They are coordinating with UN partners and Libyan authorities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libya-floods-at-least-5000-believed-dead\/\" title=\"Over 5,000 feared dead in Libya floods.\">support \u2064ongoing relief efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aid finally started to arrive in \u2064Libya on Tuesday, more than 36 hours\u200c after the flash flooding began.\u200b Satellite images vividly depict the before and \u200dafter scenes of the ravaged city of Derna.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly two months ago, the United Nations Support \u200cMission in Libya raised concerns about the abductions, arbitrary \u2063arrests, and disappearances of citizens \u2062and public figures in the country. They emphasized the negative impact of such actions on national unity,\u200d transparent elections, \u2062and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click \u2062here to read more\u2064 from The \u2063Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue teams persist in their mission to save and retrieve countless lives lost or missing in eastern Libya. The country, already plagued by instability, has been devastated by Mediterranean storm Daniel. On Tuesday, emergency workers discovered 1,500 bodies in Derna, Libya, with fears that many more remain unaccounted for, potentially resulting in thousands of casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030134,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2030133","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}