Hundreds of Libyans joined protests against the authorities in Derna and burned down the mayor's home, angry at the response to catastrophic flooding that hit the city more than a week ago.
The protesters demanded an international investigation into the collapse of two of Derna's dams, which experts warned last year were vulnerable. When Storm Daniel hit, their collapse caused thousands of deaths and colossal levels of damage.
After gathering at Derna's Al Sahaba Mosque, protesters set fire to the home of Derna's mayor at the time of the storm, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi, who has since been removed from his post.
Video footage online shows corpses lining the streets, while local media report that 70 percent of Derna's civilian infrastructure has been destroyed. The scale of the destruction is being widely blamed on Libya's political instability, which is in turn a result of NATO's 2011 invasion that overthrew the government led by Muammar Gaddafi. Since NATO-backed forces killed Gaddafi, the country has been split between two rival governments, with Derna currently ruled by the "Government of National Unity," backed by ex-CIA asset turned warlord Khalifa Haftar.
During Gaddafi's rule, Libya was transformed from one of the most impoverished countries in the world to one with the highest level of human development in Africa.
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