[1/6] Volunteers carry victims of a powerful storm and heavy rainfall that hit Libya to bury them at a cemetery in Derna, Libya September 19, 2023.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra Acquire Licensing RightsSept 19 (Reuters) - Journalists reported they were ordered out of the devastated eastern Libyan city of Derna on Tuesday, the day after protesters torched the home of the ousted mayor in fury over the authorities' failure to protect the city from floods.
Essam Abu Zriba, interior minister in the eastern administration, told Arab TV channel al Hadath that journalists and aid workers were operating normally.
Arab broadcaster Al Hurra reported that the authorities had asked all journalists to depart as soon as possible.
Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that runs eastern Libya, told Reuters by phone that some journalists had been told to move, in a step unrelated to the protests there overnight.
Persons:
Zohra, Essam Abu, Al Hurra, Al, Hichem Abu Chkiouat, Abdulmenam, Ghaithi, Muammar Gaddafi, Derna, Aguila Saleh, Aguila, Mansour, Taha Miftah, Tom Perry, Peter Graff, Alexandra Hudson, William Maclean
Organizations:
Volunteers, REUTERS, Journalists, Reuters, Communications, Libyan National Army, Islamic, World Health Organization, Thomson
Locations:
Libya, Derna, Essam, Arab, Al Jazeera, Islamic State, al Qaeda