Catastrophic floods in Libya has left hundreds of people missing and over 5,000 people believed dead

After intense rains in northeastern Libya forced two dams to fail, dumping additional water into already flooded communities, more than 5,000 people are thought dead and 10,000 are still missing.

The number of persons who are still unaccounted for was provided to media during a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday by Tamer Ramadan, the delegation's leader from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Libya. She declared, "The death toll is enormous."

According to the interior ministry of Libya's eastern authority on Tuesday, at least 5,300 individuals are believed to be killed. 

Othman Abduljalil, the health minister in the eastern government of Libya, told Libya's Almasar TV that as many as 6,000 people are still missing in the eastern city of Derna, which has experienced the worst destruction. When he toured the city on Monday, he described the situation as "catastrophic."

According to authorities, entire areas are thought to have been wiped away in the city.