Libya

Libya’s chief prosecutor says he has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams.

Experts had warned for years that floods pose a significant danger to two dams meant to protect 90,000 people in northeastern Libya.

Libya’s top prosecutor says he has opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city.

Libyan authorities have limited access to the flooded coastal city of Derna to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 people still missing and presumed dead following a disaster that has already claimed more than 11,000 lives.

The death toll in Libya’s coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday.

Torrents of water flooded into the city and washed away neighborhoods. Thousands are dead and more bodies are being recovered, while families desperately try to learn if their loved ones survived.

International aid groups have mobilized in Libya, where thousands are reported dead and thousands more still missing after weekend flooding.

At least 30,000 people in Derna were displaced by the flooding, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said.

Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could spiral with 10,000 people reported still missing after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city.

More than 8,000 were killed after Mediterranean storm Daniel pummeled eastern Libya, causing two dams to burst.

The head of one of Libya’s rival governments says flooding that swept through the eastern parts of the north African nation has left as many as 2,000 people feared dead.

The announcement that a Libyan man suspected in the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet has been taken into U.S. custody put the spotlight back on the notorious terrorist attack. The suspect, Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, is accused of building the bomb that destroyed a Pam Am flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. The attack killed all 259...