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The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
The Wadi Derna is a river valley in Libya which leads down from the Jebel Akhdar mountains to the port city of Derna. Like many other wadis in North Africa, it is an intermittent riverbed that for much of its length contains water only when heavy rain occurs. [1] It is 75 kilometres (47 mi) long [2] and drains a drainage basin of 575 km 2.
Map of the Wadi Derna watershed, covering 540 km² in eastern Libya Derna is located at the eastern end of the Jebel Akhdar , one of the very few forested areas in Libya; due to its arid climate, forest makes up a mere 0.1% of Libya's land area.
Libya's ‘dam of death’ where people will ‘never forget what happened’
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View of Derna in December 2020, the second dam is visible on the far centre-left. Hamada's health minister, Othman Abduljalil , said 6,000 people were missing in Derna alone. [ 64 ] The mayor of Derna, Abdulmenam Al-Ghaithi , told al-Arabiya that the final death toll in the city could range from 18,000 to 20,000, [ 65 ] equivalent to a fifth of ...
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