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Authorities in eastern Libya said at least 5,300 people were killed and over 10,000 were missing after a massive flood ripped through the city of Derna following a heavy storm and rain.

Eastern Libyan officials have recovered the bodies of more than 1,000 victims from the rubble in a coastal city that has been inundated by devastating floods, an official told CBS News.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said the death toll has exceeded 5,300 people in the city of Derna alone from the flooding unleashed by Mediterranean Storm Daniel.

Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said that the death toll is expected to rise in thousands in the coming days. Three IFRC volunteers died while helping victims of the floods.

In Derna, a city of around 125,000 inhabitants, Reuters journalists saw wrecked neighbourhoods, their buildings washed out and cars flipped on their roofs in streets covered in mud and rubble left by a wide torrent after dams burst.

‘BODIES LYING EVERYWHERE’
Reuters journalists saw many bodies laid out on the ground in the hospital corridors. As more bodies were brought to the hospital, people looked at them, trying to identify missing family members.

“Bodies are lying everywhere – in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings,” Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that controls the east, told Reuters by phone shortly after visiting Derna.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said emergency response teams had been mobilised to help on the ground.

As Turkey and other countries rushed aid to Libya, including search and rescue vehicles, rescue boats, generators and food, distraught Derna citizens rushed home in search of loved ones.