Mamia ya watu tayari wameshakufa huko nchini Libya karibu tu na Morocco ambako maelfu nako wamekufa kutokana na tetemeko la ardhi.
Vifo vilivyoripotiwa Libya ni upande wa Benghazi ambako kumetokea maporomoko ya bwawa baada ya kimbunga kiitwacho Daniel kuikumba nchi hiyo ya kaskazini ya Afrika.
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Timu mbalimbali za waokoaji zinaendelea kufanya kazi ya kuokoa na kutoa miili ya waathirika ambayo imesombwa na maji katika mafuriko hayo hasa katika Mji wa Derna uliopo Mashariki mwa Libya.
Mabwawa mawili na madaraja manne yameporomoka na kuzamisha sehemu kubwa ya Mji huku idadi ya vifo ikitarajiwa kuongezeka.
Baadhi ya misaada imeanza kuwasili, ikiwemo kutoka Misri, lakini juhudi za uokoaji zimetatizwa na hali ya kisiasa ya Libya kutokana na kugawanyika kati ya Serikali mbili zinazohasimiana.
Libya floods: Entire neighbourhoods dragged into the sea
Rescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in tsunami-like flood waters.
At least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city.
Two dams and four bridges collapsed in Derna, submerging much of the city when Storm Daniel hit on Sunday.
About 10,000 people are reported missing, the Red Crescent says, and the death toll is expected to rise further.
Some aid has started to arrive, including from Egypt, but rescue efforts have been hampered by the political situation in Libya, with the country split between two rival governments.
The US, Germany, Iran, Italy, Qatar and Turkey are among the countries that have said they have sent or are ready to send aid.
Video footage recorded after dark on Sunday shows a river of floodwater churning through the city with cars bobbing helplessly in the current.
There are harrowing stories of people being swept out to sea, while others clung onto rooftops to survive.
"I was shocked by what I saw, it's like a tsunami," Hisham Chkiouat, from Libya's eastern-based government, said.
He told BBC Newshour that the collapse of one of the dams to the south of Derna had dragged large parts of the city into the sea.
"A massive neighbourhood has been destroyed - there is a large number of victims, which is increasing each hour."
Mr Al-Dbeibah said rescue teams were struggling to recover some bodies, and that the navy and divers were trying to retrieve bodies from the sea.
Kasim Al-Qatani, an aid worker in the town of Bayda, told the BBC's Newsnight programme it was difficult for rescuers to reach Derna as most of the main paths into the city were "out of service because of huge damage".
An investigation has been launched into why the floods were able to cause such devastation, he said, adding that 2.5bn Libyan Dinar (£412m; $515m) would be given to help rebuild Derna and the eastern city of Benghazi.
The cities of Soussa, Al-Marj and Misrata were also affected by Sunday's storm.
Water engineering experts told the BBC it is likely the upper dam, around 12km (eight miles) from the city, had failed first, sending its water sweeping down the river valley towards the second dam, which lies closer to Derna - where neighbourhoods were inundated.
"At first we just thought it was heavy rain but at midnight we heard a huge explosion and it was the dam bursting," Raja Sassi, who survived along with his wife and small daughter, told Reuters news agency.
Libyan journalist Noura Eljerbi, who is based in Tunisia told the BBC she only found out that around 35 of her relatives who all lived in the same apartment block in Derna were still alive after contacting a local rescue team.
"The house has been destroyed but my family managed to get out before things got worse. They are safe now," she said.
Rescue worker Kasim Al-Qatani told BBC Newsnight that there is no clean drinking water in Derna, and a lack of medical supplies.
He added that the only hospital in Derna could no longer take patients because "there are more than 700 dead bodies waiting in the hospital and it's not that big."
Libya has been in political chaos since long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 - leaving the oil-rich nation effectively split with an interim, internationally recognised government operating from the capital, Tripoli, and another one in the east.
Libyan journalist Abdulkader Assad said the confusion around this was hampering rescue efforts.
"You have people who are pledging help but the help is not coming," he told the BBC. "There are no rescue teams, there are no trained rescuers in Libya. Everything over the last 12 years was about war."
But despite the split, the government in Tripoli has sent a plane with 14 tonnes of medical supplies, body bags and more than 80 doctors and paramedics.
Brian Lander, the deputy director of emergencies at the UN's World Food Programme, said the organisation had food supplies for 5,000 families.
Source: BBC
Hundreds buried in mass graves as Libya reels from devastating flooding
Emergency workers uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna, and it is feared the toll could spiral, with 10,000 people still reported missing after floodwaters from Storm Daniel smashed through dams and washed away entire neighbourhoods.
More than 1,000 corpses were collected, including at least 700 that have been buried so far, the health minister for eastern Libya said. Derna’s ambulance authority put the current death toll at 2,300.
Footage showed dozens of bodies covered by blankets in the yard of one hospital. Another image showed a mass grave piled with bodies. More than 1,500 corpses were collected, and half of them had been buried as of Tuesday evening, the health minister for eastern Libya said.
The destruction came to Derna and other parts of eastern Libya on Sunday night. As Storm Daniel pounded the coast, Derna residents said they heard loud explosions and realised that dams outside the city had collapsed.
Flash floods were unleashed down Wadi Derna, a river running from the mountains through the city and into the sea.
Outside help was only just starting to reach Derna on Tuesday, more than 36 hours after the disaster struck. The floods damaged or destroyed many access roads to the coastal city of some 89,000.
The deputy mayor of Derna, Ahmed Madroud, told Al Jazeera that “at least 20 percent of the city has been destroyed.”
He said the reason behind the devastation was related to the weak infrastructure in the city and the fact that many buildings were clustered in narrow streets located close to the river.
“When the river overflowed its banks, it just took all the buildings with it, and the families that were in it,” he said.
Source: Aljazeera