Benghazi/Libya: Death toll reaches above 2000 with over 10,000 people remaining missing after devastating floods hit Libya’s eastern city Derna, a spokesperson of the Red Crescent movement in the North African country, told Sputnik on Tuesday.

The head of the government appointed by the eastern-based parliament, Osama Hammad Monday, said that the death toll from flooding in Derna had exceeded 2,000 people.

“We are in need of any international cooperation. We have over 9,000 missing person reports. Larger search operations are required,” the spokesperson described the situation in Derna and surrounding areas as “catastrophic.”

Mohamad al-Qabisi, director of the Wahda Hospital, stated that 1700 people died in one district and the other 500 in another district of the city.

Bodies were lined up on the street outside a crowded hospital, with residents looking under the shrouds covering them in search of loved ones, Qabisi told Reuters.

Followed by floods in Libya, deadly flooding is seen in many other parts of the globe, including southern Europe and Hong Kong, CNN reports.