Libya floods: UN withdraws 11,300 Derna death toll ...Kuwait

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The United Nations has withdrawn a death toll it gave on Saturday on the number of victims of the catastrophic flooding in the Libyan port city of Derna. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had said in a situation report, also referred to as sitrep, that some 11,300 people were dead in Derna, citing the Libyan Red Crescent. The number has since been widely reported by international media outlets. But approached by The New Arab on Sunday, Jens Laerke, an OCHA spokesperson, said the inclusion of the figure was an "unfortunate mistake". "We are replacing the sitrep online," he added. Libyan Red Crescent spokesperson Tawfiq Shoukri told Th

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