Libya hit by devastating floods

Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that has been inundated by devastating floods, a humanitarian agency said.

Authorities estimated that as many as 2,000 people are believed dead in the city of Derna.

Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in many towns in eastern Libya. But the worst destruction was in Derna, where heavy rainfall and floods broke dams and washed away entire neighborhoods, authorities said.

Ossama Hamad, prime minister of the east Libya government, said that several thousands of people were missing in the city and many of them were believed to have been carried away after two upstream dams burst