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Red Cross warns: recovery from catastrophe in Libya could “take years”

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Destroyed buildings after the flood. Libya is still in a state of emergency after the terrible floods. Photo: Yousef Murad/AP/dpa

“It will take many months, perhaps years, for local residents to recover from this enormous scale of destruction,” Yann Fridez, head of the Libyan delegation to the ICRC, said on Thursday.

«This catastrophe was intense and cruel. A seven-meter high wave destroyed buildings and washed infrastructure into the sea,” Fridez said of the events in the particularly hard-hit port city of Darna. Now family members are missing and bodies are “washing back to shore.” Darna is now facing “massive psychological trauma”.

The ICRC was already active in Libya before the floods and has now sent additional teams and relief supplies to the affected region. This included medicine and food, as well as approximately 6,000 body bags. Thousands of families need help after the catastrophe caused by storm “Daniel”.

(SDA)

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