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And this week in Libya, torrential rain and the disintegration of two dams recently flooded the coastal city of Derna, sweeping entire neighborhoods into the sea.
One doctor told the BBC that many survivors were traumatized by what they've been through.
I can tell you that these people have become ghosts on the ground.
They're barely walking.
Some people have lost 50 members of their own families.
I've seen children with my own eyes.
That were flooding in the sea.
And I witnessed two civil war wars in this country.
All right, but this, nothing like this.
Nothing like this.
This man drove to Derna to look for his relatives, only to discover that 150 of them had perished in the flood.
No picture, no film can ever describe what, what we've seen.
Hundreds of bodies laid on the street, on the, what used to be streets.
The whole buildings were out as if it's never been there.