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'Worse than death itself': Survivors describe Libya floods

2023-09-14 22:15
Residents of Derna tell the BBC how they got out alive as floodwaters smashed through the city.
'Worse than death itself': Survivors describe Libya floods

The first sign that something was wrong was the sound of the dogs barking.

It was 2.30am and dark outside. Husam Abdelgawi, a 31-year-old accountant in the Libyan city of Derna, got up and went sleepily downstairs to check on them, and felt water under his feet.

When Husam opened the front...