The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on Tuesday expressed his “sincere condolences” to the people of Libya, a country hit by floods that have already killed at least 2,000 people.
“The President of the Republic expresses his sincere condolences to the Libyan people and solidarity for the countless deaths, injuries and missing people as a result of the floods that devastated eastern Libya, expressing the solidarity of the Portuguese people at such a difficult time for Libya. population of the regions most affected by this natural disaster,” says a note published on the presidency’s website.
The number of people missing from floods in Libya stands at around 10,000, and the death toll has already exceeded 2,000, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Tuesday.
“We don’t have a final balance” on the death toll, but “the number of missing is about 10,000,” IFRC chief Tamer Ramadan said at a press conference held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Storm Daniel hit eastern Libya on Sunday afternoon, hitting the coastal cities of Jabal al-Akhdar (northeast) and Benghazi, where a curfew was declared and schools were closed.
Described by experts as an “extreme event in terms of the amount of water that fell”, the storm also caused the deaths of at least 27 people in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria.
Rainfall exceeded 400 milliliters per hour, a figure not recorded for four decades, according to the Libyan National Meteorological Center, and authorities on Tuesday asked the international community to deliver humanitarian aid “as quickly as possible.”
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