(15 Sep 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Derna, Libya - 14 September 2023
++PART MUTE FROM SOURCE++
1. Various of damage caused to Derna following floods
2. Various of Turkey search and rescue (AFAD) team searching for survivors and bodies
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadil Abdel Jawad, Libya Military Search and Rescue Unit:
“The search is comprehensive on this street and throughout Derna. We are divided into groups. There is a criminal investigation group on the other side, and there is a safety group on a different side, and there are teams that came from abroad to help us, from Egypt, from Turkey, and from the Emirates (United Arab Emirates). They are all with us here, all of them are working together like one hand. We have groups from Tripoli, they joined us, the forensic evidence unit is from Tripoli.”
4. Various of Turkey search and rescue (AFAD) team searching for survivors and bodies
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Musa Abdullah, Boy Scouts Volunteer:
“There are places that are difficult for a person to reach, and there are survivors still under the rubble, and we still receive messages from them. Thank God that the Libyana and Al-Madar communications networks have been activated. Some of the survivors' messages say that they are in a specific place and are asking for anybody to rescue them, but the rubble is an obstacle between them and the rescue teams.”
5. Various of Turkey search and rescue (AFAD) team searching for survivors and bodies
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Musa Abdullah, Boy Scouts Volunteer:
“There were bodies thrown into the sea by the flood, and the sea began to bring these bodies back to the surface and they began to recover them. Among them are children and missing people. Searching the sea takes time because as you can see, the colour of the mud covers the colour of the sea.”
7. Turkey search and rescue (AFAD) worker searching for survivors and bodies
8. Various of Red Crescent volunteers gathering and talking with military personal
9. Various of damaged streets and cars
10. Damaged car on building rooftop
11. Rescue teams standing next to excavator pulling car out of the beach area ++MUTE++
12. Rescue teams walking on the beach side ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
International and local rescue teams, the Libyan army, the Libyan Red Crescent, and volunteers from around the country continued searching for survivors under the rubble of buildings in the centre of the Libyan city of Derna on Thursday.

The Libyan Ministry of Health said that most of the flood victims were buried in mass graves outside Derna, with an additional 3,000 bodies buried on Thursday, adding that there are still 2,000 bodies yet to be buried.

"There are teams that came from abroad to help us, from Egypt, from Turkey, and from the Emirates. They are all with us here, all of them are working together like one hand," Fadil Abdel Jawad from the Libya Military Search and Rescue Unit said, adding there has also been teams from Tripoli.

The Libyan Ministry of Health confirmed that divers are combing the sea waters off the coast of Derna to search for bodies.

The state of emergency in Derna was raised to the maximum level due to the spread of corpses in the streets and the risk of the spread of epidemics.

The mayor of Derna, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi said on Thursday that the electrical current reaches 60% of the residential neighbourhoods, and added that they are working to restore electrical current in the affected areas so that the rescue teams and authorities can carry out their work.



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