The spokesman for the Libyan Emergency Medicine and Support Center, Malik Marseet, has told Libya Alahrar TV channel that the efforts to recover bodies from different locations in Derna are still ongoing.
Marseet indicated that the Center had set up a system to organize the delivery of aids to the areas most damaged in Derna city, explaining that more than 350 families were registered in the system.
“Drones are used to comb through the valleys in Derna as bodies are being piled up in there.” Marseet said, as Derna continues to be an area of disaster with a number of local and international teams now narrowing down the possibility of finding any survivors.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that 43,059 individuals had been displaced by the floods in northeastern Libya, citing the lack of water supply as being reportedly driving many the internally displaced persons (IDPs) out of Derna to eastern and western municipalities, saying that this explained a reduction in the overall number of displaced individuals in Derna.
The full scale of the death toll has yet to emerge and officials have given widely varying death tolls. The World Health Organization has confirmed 3,922 deaths.
