Thousands of people have been killed in Libya in the flooding caused by heavy rain that devastated parts of the country this weekend, a disaster that was exacerbated by the collapse of two dams in the coastal city of Derna. At least 10,000 people were missing, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Libya has been divided for years between an internationally recognized government based in Tripoli and a separately administered region in the east, including Derna. The ambulance and emergency services department that provided the numbers of dead and missing, which is affiliated with the government in the west, said it had sent rescue teams to the east. It was unclear on Sept. 12 how the different authorities in Libya were coordinating the search and rescue efforts, as medical teams began converging on the region to treat survivors and search for the missing. #libya #flood #derna