‘Scale of devastation enormous’: Aid crucial in ‘months to come’ for Libyans who’ve lost everything

The death toll from flooding that hit the eastern Libyan city of Derna reached more than 5,100 and was expected to rise further, a local health official said Wednesday, as authorities struggled to get aid to the coastal city where thousands remained missing and tens of thousands were homeless. Search and rescue teams combed shattered apartment buildings for bodies and retrieved the dead floating offshore in the Mediterranean Sea. For more on the devastation left behind by the deadly floods, FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza is joined by Tommaso Della Longa, Spokesperson and Manager of the Media Unit at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies – IFRC.