The estimated number of deaths in the Libyan city of Derna after catastrophic floods could reach 20,000, based on the number of wiped-out districts, Derna's mayor, told Al-Arabiya TV on Wednesday. "The number [of deaths] keeps rising... it could reach 18,000 or 20,000," Abdulmenam Al-Ghaithi said. He said this estimate was based on the scale of destruction in the eastern region, particularly as entire neighbourhoods were swept away in Derna. Backing those numbers, the director of the medical centre of the eastern town of Al-Bayda, Abdul Rahim Mazeq, put the death toll from the floods as high as 20,000, according to comments made to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper. He said
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