The mayor of Derna's estimate is based on the districts destroyed when two dams burst.
Much of Derna now just rubble and bodies, resident says
Taha Muftah told Newshour on the World Service that the sound of the dams collapsing was like an air strike or heavy gunfire. The water now has stopped and what is left is only the rubble, and the people who were taken by the flood under the water."
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