Huda Akram is a doctor based in Benghazi, Libya, whose family hails from Derna. She spoke to NPR on Wednesday, describing the harrowing scenes and what is happening now.
A damaged vehicle is stuck debris after the floods caused by the Storm Daniel ravaged Derna, Libya on September 12.Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Two dams collapsed and whole neighborhoods were washed away after a storm slammed the city of Derna, Libya and others along the Mediterranean coast this week.Huda Akram is a doctor based in Benghazi, Libya, whose family hails from Derna. She spoke toMary Louise Kelly on Wednesday, describing the harrowing scenes and what is happening now.This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
It's just in split seconds. People who are anticipating, they managed to warn the others to run. And my cousin was telling me,"We were running and the water was just running after us." And they stayed there on the rooftop — they were holding on because the water was also pushing them. There's a lot of people [whose] entire households, entire family name from the grandfather to the husband and wives and grandchildren [were] completely wiped.
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