To date, 20,000 people have died in the Libyan floods.

 

  Authorities in Libya have expressed concern that the death toll from the catastrophic flood that swept through the country's eastern regions could reach 20,000.

The hardest affected area is Derna, a population of about 100,000 people.

 After Storm Daniel, an incredibly lethal Mediterranean tropical cyclone, destroyed two dams and four bridges, large portions of Derna were washed away on Sunday.

  According to reports, the dams caused the area's buildings to get drowned and some individuals to drown.  The dead toll was 3,000 as of Tuesday, and 10,000 people were listed as missing. The figures may change, according to officials. Images posted on social media depict Derna as a broad, flat crescent of ground with extensive areas of murky water.

  Clothes, toys, furniture, shoes, and other belongings that were washed from homes by the flood are now all over the beaches.

Streets are littered with hundreds of destroyed cars, many of which have been turned on their sides or onto their roofs, uprooted trees, and large puddles of muck.

  Derna's mayor, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi, stated in an interview with Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya television on Thursday that the number of deaths in the city could reach 18,000 to 20,000 depending on how many neighborhoods the water devastated.

  As the official death toll exceeds 5,000, other nations have expressed their sympathies and started to distribute relief for the country in North Africa.

   President Bola Tinubu expressed his condolences to the Libyan leadership on Wednesday and stressed that Nigeria is prepared to offer any assistance that is required.