“Our friends and families are all gone,” one man said, as he described the moment his community’s lives changed forever when floodwater swept away families.
swept generational homes and entire families into the Mediterranean sea — leaving onlooking survivors in a state of shock and horror.
“Our community feels destroyed. It’s a small tight-knit city where everyone knows each other. Our friends and families are all gone.” The water unleashed by the Wadi Derna dam, a second and final barrier to one higher upstream, killed 27 members of the family.
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