Libya floods: The city where the missing outnumber the dead and overwhelm the living | ITV News

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A week on from the devastating floods in Libya, ITV News correspondent Emma Murphy meets survivors who are struggling to come to terms with the tragedy in front of them.

On a hillside above Derna those who survived gather to survey what is left of their city.

To remember who they have lost and reminisce about how beautiful this place used to be, the waterfalls, the greenery.

Now there’s no greenery and the waterfalls are likely a reminder of when the dams burst and the water cascaded down.

As the light faded one week on, a little girl in a red Mickey Mouse T-shirt walked with her father. Hand in hand they looked out as he tried to explain what had happened.

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