The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has estimated that 43,059 individuals have been internally displaced by the floods in northeastern Libya.
IOM said on Thursday that the lack of water supply was reportedly driving many displaced persons out of Derna to eastern and western municipalities, adding that this would explain the reduction in the overall number of displaced individuals in Derna.
It also stressed that displaced individuals continued to move out of Derna to eastern locations including Tobruk (1,320 individuals) and Benghazi (730 individuals).
“The majority of them are hosted by relatives. Field observers report that displaced families from Derna continue to arrive to the western municipalities of Tripoli, Hai Alandalus, Misrata, Ghiryan and Qasr bin Ghasheer. Most of them are staying with host families.” IOM indicated.
IOM also reported that urgent needs of the internally displaced persons included food, drinking water, mental health and psychosocial support.
The full scale of the death toll has yet to emerge and officials have given widely varying death tolls. The World Health Organization has so far confirmed 3,922 deaths.
