At least 4,000 people are thought to have perished but provisional figures vary enormously.
GENEVA - Emergency workers sifting through the mud and rubble of the flood disaster in Libya are still hopeful of finding survivors, the Red Cross chief in the country said Friday.
Ramadan did not give an estimate of the toll, saying the "the definite numbers will be available upon the finalisation of the assessment of the ground." "I think the issue for us in Libya is of course coordinating with... the government and then the other authority in the east of the country," Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator said, adding: "We don't know the extent of the problem."
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