A masked doctor leans down into a black plastic body bag, and gently manipulates the legs of the man inside. "First we determine age, sex and length," he explains.
"He's in the putrefaction stage now, because of the water."
In a hospital car park in (...)
The journey to the Libyan city of Derna takes twice as long now.
Driving along the road from Benghazi, fields turn into rust-red lakes. As you get closer, the traffic begins to slow.
Telegraph poles pulled from the ground by the floodwaters now lie (...)
The death toll in Libya's coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday.
Marie el-Drese, the aid group's (...)
Bodies recovered from a devastating flood that wiped out parts of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya have been buried in mass graves.
At least 2,300 people died when a tsunami-like river of floodwater swept through Derna on Sunday after a dam (...)
The death toll from floods in Libya in one city alone stands at more than 1,000, a senior official who visited the eastern port of Derna has said.
"Bodies are lying everywhere," the minister from the eastern-based government told Reuters news (...)
