Death toll in Libya flooding at 11,470 as over 10k still missing

At least 11,300 people have died and another 10,100 are missing from the coastal city of Derna one week after Storm Daniel hit northeastern Libya, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.

An estimated 170 people have been killed as a result of the flooding elsewhere in the country, taking the total death toll to 11,470. More than 40,000 people have been displaced, the UN report said, citing the latest data from International Organizaton for Migration.

Figures are expected to rise as search-and-rescue efforts continue to look for survivors.

A week after a tsunami-sized flash flood devastated Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths, the international aid effort to help the grieving survivors slowly gathered pace on Sunday.

Search-and-rescue teams wearing face masks and protective suits kept up the grim search for bodies or any survivors in the mud-caked wasteland of smashed buildings, crushed cars and uprooted trees.