HH The Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has directed authorities to send urgent assistance to Libya

HH The Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has instructed officials to deliver immediate aid to Libya, where many have perished as a result of torrential rainfall and ferocious floods. Additionally, Sheikh Tamim wrote a cable of condolence to Mohamed Al Menfi, the head of Libya's Presidential Council. He expressed sorrow over the significant loss of life in the nation's northeast and wished those who had been hurt a swift recovery.

At least 2,000 people are thought to have perished and many more are still unaccounted for after two dams in the country's northeast collapsed as a result of the torrential rains brought on by Storm Daniel. Numerous individuals were killed and thousands were forced to flee as a result of the water from the breached dams flowing into previously flooded areas.

On Monday, Othman Abduljalil, the health minister for the eastern Libyan government supported by the parliament, visited Derna, the city most severely affected. The area was characterised by him as a "ghost town." Up to 6,000 individuals from Derna are presumed dead. Strong low-pressure system that caused severe flooding in Greece last week was the cause of the rains. After that, it proceeded into the Mediterranean before evolving into a Medicane, a tropical-like storm.

The Libyan National Army's eastern-based spokesperson, Ahmed Mismari, said that two dams had given way due to floods. Three bridges were demolished as a result. Whole communities were swept away by the surging flood and subsequently dumped into the sea, he claimed. Al Bayda, Al Marj, Tobruk, Takenis, Al Bayada, and Battah, as well as the eastern coast all the way to Benghazi, were among the cities that Mismari said were affected by the floods.