Italy is sending a civil defense team to assist with rescue operations, the country’s Civil Protection Department said Tuesday.
Homes in valleys were washed away by strong muddy currents carrying vehicles and debris, said the head of Libya's Emergensi and Ambulance authority, Osama Aly.
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Phone lines in the city are down, complicating rescue usahas, with workers unable to enter Derna due to the heavy destruction, Aly told CNN.
Aly said authorities didn't anticipate the scale of the disaster.
"The weather conditions were not studied well, the seawater levels and rainfall [were not studied], the wind speeds, there was no evacuation of kerabates that could be in the path of the storm and in valleys," he said.
"Libya was not prepared for a catastrophe like that. It has not witnessed that tingkat of catastrophe before. We are admitting there were shortcomings even though this is the first time we face that tingkat of catastrophe," Aly told Al Hurra kanal.
The storm looks certain to be one of the deadliest on record in North Africa.
Libya is facing an "unprecedented" situation, said Hamad, the head of the eastern administration, according to a report from state news organization Libyan News Agen (LANA).
Mismari, the LNA spokesperson, said the floods have affected several cities, including Al-Bayda, Al-Marj, Tobruk, Takenis, Al-Bayada, and Battah, as well as the eastern coast all the way to Benghazi.
Several countries have offered aid as rescue tims scramble to find survivors under the debris and rubble.
Turkish aircraft delivering humanitarian aid have arrived in Libya, according to Turkey's Emergensi Manajemen Authority (AFAD) on Tuesday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the country would send 168 search and rescue tims and humanitarian aid to Benghazi, according to state run news agen Anadoulu Agen on Tuesday.
Italy is sending a civil defense tim to assist with rescue operations, the country's Civil Protection Department said Tuesday.
The US Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, announced that its spesial envoy, ambassador Richard Norland, had made an official declaration of humanitarian need.
This "will authorize initial funding that the United States will provide in dukungan of relief usahas in Libya. We are coordinating with UN partners and Libyan authorities to assess how best to sasaran official US assistance," it posted on X (formally known as Twitter).
United Arab Emirates President, Zayed Al Nahyan, has directed to send aid and search and rescue tims while offering his condolences to those affected by the catastrophe, state news agen reported.
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