Like much of Libya's crumbling infrastructure, the two dams that had been built to hold back water from Derna fell into disrepair during years of neglect, conflict and division in chaos-ridden Libya.

A Libyan court has sentenced 12 officials to between nine and 27 years in prison for their role in the collapse of two dams that killed more than 4,500 people last year and destroyed much of the ...

The two dams, Abu Mansour and Derna, were originally built by a Yugoslav company in the 1970s using rocks and earth. They held back floodwaters in the valley that cuts through Derna until 1998 ...

But the tally did not include Derna, which had become inaccessible, and many of the thousands missing there were believed carried away by waters after two upstream dams burst. Video by residents ...

At least 2,300 people died when a tsunami-like river of floodwater swept through Derna on Sunday after a dam burst during Storm Daniel. A mechanical digger worked in a cemetery where victims ...

13, 2023 7:59 a.m. DERNA, Libya — Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea Wednesday to look for bodies in a coastal Libyan city where the collapse of two dams unleashed a ...

wrecked buildings and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. The Associated Press DERNA ...

A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Tuesday. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns.

[AFP] Twelve people were convicted on Sunday in Libya's eastern city of Derna over their role in "managing dam facilities" during last year's deadly floods, the general prosecutor's office said in ...

As the storm pounded the coast, Derna residents said they heard loud explosions and realized that dams outside the city had collapsed. Flash floods were unleashed down Wadi Derna, a river running ...