The head of the parliament-appointed government based in the Libyan city of Sirte, Osama Hamad, said that the number of victims exceeded two thousand. His statement leads RT Arabic.
At the same time, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the government in the east of the country, Essam Abu Zariba, in an interview with Al Hadath TV channel, also said that the death toll was more than 2 thousand people. He also announced thousands of missing residents.
At the same time, the Red Crescent office in Benghazi previously announced 150 deaths as a result of the flood.
On September 8, the South China Morning Post reported that more than 100 people were injured in Hong Kong as a result of the worst downpour on record since 1884.