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Aid trickles into Libyan city of Derna as search for flood victims continues

The Red Crescent confirmed 11,300 deaths and says more than 10,000 are still missing after a flash flood swept through the city Sunday.

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People deliver donated aid to a flash flood-destroyed city of Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16. The death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to over ten thousand as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent.
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People deliver donated aid to a flash flood-destroyed city of Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16.
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People deliver donated clothes to a flash flood-destroyed city of Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. The death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to over ten thousand as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)
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People deliver donated clothes to a flash flood-destroyed city of Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16.
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People deliver donated aid to a flash flood-destroyed city of Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16.
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A street is photographed after flooding in Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16.
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A building collapses after flooding in Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16.
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Rescuers search for bodies of the flood victims at the Corniche of the city of Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15. The death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent.
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Rescuers and relatives search for bodies of the flood victims at the Corniche of the city of Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.
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Rescuers and relatives search for bodies of the flood victims at the Corniche of the city of Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.
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Rescuers search for bodies of the flood victims at the Corniche of the city of Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.
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People search for flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.
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People search for flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.
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View of the destruction after the floods in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.
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Rescuers recover the body of a victim killed during flooding in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.
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Mohammed Khier Qalaji, the brother of Firas Qalaji a Syrian man who died during the floods in the Libyan city of Derna, shows through his mobile phone the children of his brother who were also killed with their father, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Sept. 16. Firas Qalaji, 45, a car mechanic, had been living in Libya since 2000 and his wife Rana Khateeb and their six children were to be buried in Libya, the family said in a statement.
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A man sits by the graves of the flash flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15.

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