Last weekend, Sami Albah, 59, and his sister were preparing for their brother's wedding in their home city of Derna, Libya.
She had flown in from the United States for the nuptials and Albah, an architectural engineer, was hosting her in his hillside apartment.
"We were so glad that he was going to get married," said Albah, standing on the roof of his apartment building on Sunday. As the siblings slept, their other sister, her husband, four children and their grandparents were resting at home in the nearby valley. When the storm waters engulfed their three-story building, they evacuated to the roof, thinking it would be safe.
Since then, Albah and his brother-in-law have been searching, at first for their loved ones and now for their loved ones' bodies.Aftermath
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