The drowned in Libya are probably over 15 thousand

More than 5,000 people are dead and 10,000 people are missing after storm Daniel breached a dam on Sunday and a water tsunami swept through entire neighborhoods of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya.

They are searching for survivors for the third day now.

Excavators dig up dirt in a cemetery and dump the bodies, wrapped in body bags and blankets, one after the other into mass graves before burying them.

Many of the 10,000 missing are believed to have been swept out to sea. But the living hope to find their dead. The hospital corridors are covered with bodies, among which people wander in the hope of finding their missing relatives among them – reporters see. More dead people are being brought in.

Local resident Mustafa Salem says he has lost 30 members of his family so far.

It is likely that the storm first broke the wall of a dam about 12 km from Derna, the water went down the valley and swept away a second dam, which is located closer to the city – water engineering experts told the BBC, explaining the huge scale of the disaster.

Video footage taken after nightfall on Sunday showed a river from the flood flowing through Derna, cars swaying in it. The daylight of the morning reveals destroyed neighborhoods, streets covered in mud and debris, buried and overturned cars. Stories are told of people being swept out to sea as they tried to climb onto the roofs to survive.

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