An Algerian rescue expert told Lana: I have never seen a disaster like Derna before.

Derna, September 17, 2023 (Lana) The head of the Algerian rescue team in Derna, Colonel Farouk Ashour, said that he had never seen a disaster like the Derna disaster during his work in rescue for more than 40 years.

Colonel Ashour said in a statement to Lana’s correspondent in Derna, "I participated in a huge number of search and rescue operations in Algeria and the world, the last of which was in Turkey, but I have never seen like this disaster."

The Algerian expert described the situation in Derna as a "tsunami," saying: "A third of the city disappears, half of it in the sea... This is a tsunami."

Ashour stated that the team members recovered more than 30 bodies from the rubble of homes damaged by the flood and did not find any survivors of the disaster in the area in which they were searching.

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