Libya flood: One week on and new victims are still being found

Specialist divers are still finding the bodies of people washed out to sea from Derna trapped beneath the water.

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00:00 The devastated Libyan city of Derna on Monday, a week after catastrophic floods killed thousands

00:08 and destroyed buildings. Search and rescue teams continued the grim search for bodies

00:13 or survivors in the muddy wasteland of smashed buildings, crushed cars and uprooted trees.

00:19 One survivor said he woke to a scream in the night to find his neighbor's houses flooded.

00:24 "We are here in the fourth floor, this is my apartment, Abdel Salam's apartment, in the

00:31 fourth floor. The water reached the meter here. Here we took the families and raised

00:39 them up, we raised them up to the stairs and we raised them to the roofs."

00:46 International rescue divers have begun recovering bodies from the port of Derna. It's now confirmed

00:50 that many are trapped 12 meters underwater, some in their cars.

00:55 "The thing was really striking for our team that our people are shocked and traumatized.

01:03 So even in the health centers at the moment, either the staff died or they are not able

01:10 to work."

01:11 International aid efforts are slowly gathering pace. A team of French rescuers has set up

01:16 a field hospital in Derna, but the risk is high for aid workers. On Sunday, four Greek

01:22 and three Libyan emergency workers were killed in a road accident in the city.

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