'I'll never see him again': Families in Egypt mourn lost relatives killed in Libya floods
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00:00 The Goran Yous family is in mourning.
00:03 20-year-old Mohamed died during the deadly flooding that devastated Derna in Libya.
00:09 This is a picture of him standing in front of the sea, a souvenir picture.
00:16 I was in Derna around six or nine months ago.
00:20 I remember he was sitting with me in the yards.
00:23 We packed my stuff, my bags, and he said goodbye.
00:27 Now, I'll never see him again.
00:31 Ahmad, the oldest sibling, had to identify the body.
00:39 Their names were written on the bodies.
00:43 Each one of them had a name written on his body, on his feet.
00:47 By the will of God, even though no one knew whose body it was,
00:52 they were broken and dead. We saw them broken, deformed, very deformed.
00:57 I mean, he didn't die like this, but the situation was horrifying.
01:02 In the small rural village of Nazlat el-Sharif, every family had a relative in Derna.
01:08 With Egypt's economic crisis, the remittances were a much-needed lifeline.
01:13 Ahmad now has to take care of his nieces and nephews who were orphaned.
01:20 Every month he used to send 30 euros, 60 euros.
01:24 I work in the fields. How can I help?
01:27 I earn 3 euros a day, which makes a monthly earning of 100 euros.
01:31 What should I do? What should I do other than feel sad?
01:35 To help ease the financial burden, President Sisi promised the equivalent
01:41 of 3,000 euros for each person who died.
01:44 But that still does not take away the pain of losing their loved ones
01:48 in Durna's floodwaters.