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Devastation in Derna
  + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
Swathes of Derna, a city of 125,000 residents, were obliterated by the flood on Sunday night, bringing down multi-storey buildings while families were asleep. Map showing the footprint of buildings in Derna, highlighting those which appear to be completely washed away. Drone shots of Derna, Libya. REUTERS Drone shots of Derna, Libya. A view shows the damaged cars, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya.
Persons: Abdulmenam, Ghaithi, Hichem Abu Chkiouat, Mustafa Salem, , hydrologist, Omar Al, Mukhtar, Storm Daniel, , Suzanne Gray, Muammar Gaddafi, Omran Organizations: Planet Labs PBC, Reuters, REUTERS, Plant Labs, Mukhtar University, Britain's University of Reading, Al, National Meteorological Centre, NATO, of National Unity, Fetori Locations: Libya, Derna, Greece, Tripoli
[1/2] People walk through debris after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya, September 12, 2023 in this still image from video obtained from social media. Officials in eastern Libya say the death toll so far stands at more than 5,000. A hospital director in the city told Reuters on Monday 1,700 bodies had been counted at his hospital, and that 500 more had been buried in another part of the city. Extensive damage, with buildings missing, is also clearly visible in other parts of the city where flood waters broke out from the waterway. Derna is in an eastern area where a parallel administration operates, and where control is wielded by commander Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army.
Persons: Mustafa Salem, Khalifa Haftar's, Abdulhamid, Mohammed, Menfi, Tom Perry, Angus McDowall, John Stonestreet, Peter Graff Organizations: ALI, REUTERS Acquire, Reuters, of National Unity, Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army, Libya's, Humanitarian Affairs, Thomson Locations: Libya, Derna, DERNA, Libyan, Derna's, Tripoli, Qatar, Turkey
Libya court sentences 23 to death for Islamic State campaign
  + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
MISRATA, Libya, May 29 (Reuters) - A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. [1/4] Suspects sit behind bars during a judgment sentence against 56 defendants accused of joining Islamic State group (ISIS) in the court in Misrata, Libya, May 29, 2023. "My son is missing and my relative, my brother-in-law, was murdered in Sirte Square," he said. Speaking in court on Monday, Fawzia Arhuma said she welcomed the death sentences after her son was killed by the group at a power station near Sirte. Reporting by Ayman al-Sahily, writing by Angus McDowall, editing by Andrew Heavens and Giles ElgoodOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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