The United Nations has amended the previous death toll from Libya floods, stating that at least 3,958 people have died instead of 11,300 as was earlier reported by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), CNN reported. According to the revised report updated on Sunday morning from the OCHA, the UN has now pegged the toll at 3,958, citing the World Health Organization (WHO). As per the updated report, over 9000 people are still missing, according to CNN. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, told CNN on Sunday, "We're going with figures just verified by WHO." The deputy spokesperson said the death toll figures are fluid and "can go upward or downward."

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People deliver donated aid to a flash flood-destroyed city of Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)People deliver donated aid to a flash flood-destroyed city of Derna, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)People search for flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)Rescuers recover the body of a victim killed during flooding in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)People search for flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023.

The death toll from the unprecedented flooding in northeastern Libya has risen to at least 11,300 people, the U.N. has said, with 10,100 more missing in the devastated city of Derna alone. Bodies are regularly being found amid mangled cars, uprooted palm trees and bits of buildings at the Derna seafront. Yousef Murad / APThe World Health Organization said 32 tons of health aid — enough to reach almost 250,000 people — also arrived Saturday, including essential medicines, trauma and emergency supplies, and medical equipment. “This is a disaster of epic proportions,” Dr. Ahmed Zouiten, a WHO representative in Libya, said in a statement. International aid groups and Libyans alike scrambled to get humanitarian aid delivered to the devastated areas over the weekend.

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This is now one of the most vital jobs here, and one of the most distressing. The man is unrecognisable after spending a week in the sea. His body washed ashore that morning.

Desperate Sudanese face endless wait for passports so they can fleePORT SUDAN, Sudan: Marwa Omar was one of hundreds who lined up at dawn to try and get passports in Port Sudan. Since the authorities inaugurated a new passport office in the eastern city of Port Sudan in late August, hundreds of people have lined up all day, every day. They are desperate to obtain paperwork that will allow them to leave Sudan’s deadly war behind. “I was in Atbara for two months, but when I heard they were issuing passports again I came to Port Sudan,” said Salwa Omar. Those who could scramble enough money together to make it to Port Sudan are burdened with skyrocketing accommodation and food costs.

In Tripoli, some 1450 kilometres west, a hospital said it would perform operations free of charge for any injured in the flood. “The wound or pain of what happened in Derna hurt all the people from western Libya to southern Libya to eastern Libya,” he said. General Khalifa Hifter’s forces besieged Tripoli in a year-long failed military campaign to try to capture the capital, killing thousands. “We have even seen some military commanders arrive from the Tripoli allied military coalition in Derna, showing support,” said Claudia Gazzini, a senior Libya analyst at International Crisis Group. As the storm approached, authorities told people – including those in vulnerable areas – to stay indoors.

Four members of a Greek rescue team en route to the flood-ravaged city of Derna and three members of a Libyan family were killed in a road accident on Sunday, the health minister for the Libyan eastern government said. Fifteen of the Greek rescue team were injured, including seven in a critical condition, Othman Abduljaleel told a televised news conference. According to a diplomatic source, the Greek rescue team had 16 members plus three interpreters. Later Sunday, Greece’s General National Defense Staff (GEETHA) released the following statement:“We announce that three members of the Greek humanitarian mission to Libya lost their lives and two are missing. The Foreign Ministry had released the following statement before the fatalities were announced:“The Greek mission that went to provide humanitarian aid in Libya had a car accident today during its road trip to the city of Derna.

Now there’s nothing left but devastationAcross the eastern Libyan city of Derna, thousands died and thousands more are still missing after a catastrophic flood hit the city. CopiedVolunteers in hazmat suits scan the sea for dead bodies in Derna. (Sarah Sirgany/CNN)Across the eastern Libyan city of Derna, thousands died and thousands more are still missing after a catastrophic flood hit the city in the early hours of Sunday. Almost all they find are dead bodies and more are believed to be under the heaps of crumbled cement. “This valley was a paradise full of pomegranate trees,” one volunteer says as she waits for next drop off of bodies.

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DERNA, LIBYA: A week after a tsunami-sized flash flood devastated the Libyan coastal city of Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths, the international aid effort to help the grieving survivors slowly gathered pace Sunday. Libyan officials and humanitarian organisations have warned that the final toll could be much higher with thousands still missing. The massive flood came as Libya was lashed on September 10 by the hurricane-strength Storm Daniel, which had earlier brought deadly floods to Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. The aid being sent to Libya includes water, food, tents, blankets, hygiene kits, medicines and emergency surgical supplies as well as heavy machinery to help clear the debris, and more body bags. The scale of the devastation in Derna and surrounding areas has prompted shows of solidarity across divided Libya, as volunteers in Tripoli have collected aid for the flood victims.

By Euronews with APFor many Libyans, the collective grief over the more than 11,000 dead has morphed into a rallying cry for national unity in a country blighted by 12 years of conflict and division. Rescue teams search for victims in Derna, Libya, on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. "The wound or pain of what happened in Derna hurt all the people from western Libya to southern Libya to eastern Libya,” he said. Gen. Khalifa Hifter’s forces besieged Tripoli in a yearlong failed military campaign to try to capture the capital, killing thousands. “The next flood will be over them.”The tragedy follows a long line of problems born from the country’s lawlessness.

More than 11,000 people have been killed by devastating floods in Libya, with more than 10,000 still missing and survivors now facing the threat of waterborne diseases. “It doesn’t mean the dead bodies pose a risk, but it does mean that the water itself is contaminated by everything. International relief organizations are scrambling to get supplies to survivors of last week’s devastating floods in Libya. REUTERSRescue teams assist in relief work in Libya’s eastern city of Derna September 17, 2023 following deadly flash floods. AFP via Getty Images“We have no water and no resources.”The response to the devastating floods has brought uncommon unity to the politically divided country.