Libya Flood Protestors Torch Mayor’s Home

LIBYA – The mayor’s home in the Libyan city of Derna has been burnt to the ground, as hundreds of protesters demanded answers for last week’s catastrophic flood.

Protestors are calling for top officials in Libya’s eastern government to be fired. Derna’s whole city council has now been dismissed.

More than 10,000 people are officially missing after two old dams burst, flooding the city. The number of deaths have fluctuated but the United Nations now says it has confirmed close to 4,000 deaths.

Residents say they were not sufficiently warned by officials, who they believe must have known a huge amount of rainfall was coming.