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Tarek Fahim was taking videos of the water filling behind the dam in the Derna valley in Libya late Saturday night. Up until 1:30 am, Storm Daniel was just wind and rain. When he went home an hour later, it took very little time between the moment he heard the dam burst and the gushing water flooding his street.

An official in the eastern based government tells the BBC locals in Derna were told to flee their homes.

Driving into Derna in the early hours was like arriving in a ghost town. The city, decimated by flash floods that tore through homes and streets earlier this week, was eerily quiet.

The Egyptian village of al-Sharif has lost at least 70 young men in the Libyan floods.

Over years of lawlessness, Libya has faded from a prosperous state to a vulnerable, fragile one.

Residents of Derna tell the BBC how they got out alive as floodwaters smashed through the city.

Pictures reveal washed-away streets and thousands of destroyed buildings in the city of Derna.

Ashraf Ali says it took days for him to learn if relatives were safe in devastating flooding in Libya.

More than 5,300 people died after dam bursts brought devastating floods to the eastern city of Derna.

In Libya, officials say at least 10,000 people are missing and thousands more are displaced.

There are calls for more humanitarian support as victims in Derna are buried in mass graves.

A visual guide to why heavy rain caused such devastation and killed so many people in the city of Derna.