The death toll from Morocco’s deadliest quake in more than six decades has risen to 2,000. late on Friday, a powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale shook the African country.
Rescuers raced against time on Monday to find survivors in the rubble more than 48 hours after Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in over six decades, with nearly 2,500 killed in a disaster that devastated villages in the High Atlas Mountains.
Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead, one of the country’s leaders said Monday.
The death toll from devastating floods in Libya’s eastern city of Derna has risen to an estimated 6,000 people, a unity government official said on Wednesday.
Almost 3,000 people are reported to have died in the earthquake that hit Morocco on Friday, but the death toll continues to rise as search and rescue teams comb through mountains of rubble.
The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Libya’s eastern city of Derna has climbed to 11,300, the United Nations said in an update on Saturday, citing the Libyan Red Crescent.
In recent years, some Arab countries in the region believed that without addressing a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, peace would be brought to the region.