Published September 15,2023
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At least 55 youngsters have been poisoned by polluted water within the Libyan coastal metropolis of Derna, which was hit particularly arduous by floods attributable to Storm Daniel when it struck the nation final weekend.
“We detected 55 cases of contamination (poisoning) with water unfit for consumption and drinking in Derna, all of them are children,” Haidar al-Sayeh, head of the unity authorities’s National Center for Disease Control, stated on Friday.
The circumstances occurred amongst displaced households on account of consuming water combined with sewage, he defined.
Citing sanitation officers, the Derna City Council Friday warned towards “using water from wells located within the city center.”
At least 6,000 individuals have been killed and hundreds of others stay lacking on account of final weekend’s floods in japanese Libya, in line with official figures.
Torrential rains and floods from Storm Daniel swept a number of areas on Sunday in japanese Libya, most notably Benghazi, Al-Bayda, and Al-Marj, in addition to Soussa and Derna.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
