Communications cut to flood-ravaged Libyan city

Move follows objects as public vents anger at years of corruption and overlook that led to catastrophe The tsunami-sized flash flood broke through 2 dams in bad repairwork from years of dispute, corruption and overlook, and cleaned out whole areas of Derna in Libya. (Photo: AFP) DERNA, Libya – Telephone and web links were severed Tuesday to the flood-hit city of Derna, a day after hundreds objected there versus regional authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through 2 aging river dams upstream from the city on the night of September 10 and takendown whole areas, sweeping unknown thousands into the Mediterranean Sea. Protesters massed on Monday at the city’s grand mosque, venting their anger at regional and local authorities they blamed for stoppingworking to preserve the dams or to supply early caution of the catastrophe. “Thieves and traitors needto hang,” they yelled, priorto some protesters torched the home of the town’s outoffavor mayor. On Tuesday, phone and online links to Derna were severed, an interruption the nationwide telecom business LPTIC blamed on “a rupture in the optical fibre” link to Derna, in a declaration on its Facebook page. The telecom business stated the blackout, which likewise impacted other locations in eastern Libya, “could be the outcome of a purposeful act of sabotage” and vowed that “our groups are working to repairwork it as rapidly as possible”. Rescue employees have kept digging for bodies, with the authorities death toll at around 3,300 however numerous thousands more missingouton giventhat th
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