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Libya's prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of eight officials as part of his inquiry into the recent flood disaster that killed thousands, his office said on Monday. The flash flood, which witnesses likened to a tsunami, broke through two ageing dams on September 10 after a hurricane-strength storm lashed the area around Derna, a port city in Libya's east.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls a flood that killed thousands in Derna, Libya a symbol of the world's ills as he openS the annual General Assembly. "Even as we speak now, bodies are washing ashore from the same Mediterranean Sea where billionaires sunbathe on their super yachts," Guterres says, adding, "Derna is a sad snapshot of the state of our world -- the flood of inequity, of injustice, of inability to confront the challenges in our midst." SOUNDBITE
Bodies were washing ashore in eastern Libya on Wednesday, swelling the death toll from a storm that swept whole neighbourhoods out to sea, with thousands already confirmed dead and many thousands more still missing.
Around 250 municipalities in northern France will be declared in a state of natural disaster due to massive flooding, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday as he visited affected areas fearing further rises in the water level.
At least ten people have died in Western Europe as Storm Ciaran brings record-breaking winds and rainfall to the region. Three of those deaths were in Tuscany, Italy, where homes were submerged in flash flooding. "I looked out and saw the water coming down like a river" says a resident of Campi Bisenzio, north of Florence.
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