Rescuers waist-deep in water search for Libya survivors

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STORY: The personnel are from Turkey’s interior ministry, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) and looked for bodies under piles of collapsed buildings and floating debris.

A torrent washed away whole districts of Derna, a city in eastern Libya, on Sunday (September 10) night after two dams collapsed. Thousands were killed and thousands more are missing.

Various Turkish government agencies and non-governmental organizations have sent aid to the flood-hit city, including medical gear, ambulances, medicine and clothing.