Survivors recount Libya flood horror
Sep 19, 2023
Tripoli [Libya], September 19: It was long past midnight when Abdel MoneimAwad al-Sheikh awoke to desperate screams from outside his home in the Libyan city of Derna, only to find his building engulfed by surging flood waters. "I took nothing but my glasses and phone and fled as the waters shook the iron doors like an earthquake," recounted the 73-year-old survivor of the deadly disaster.