Libyan Red Crescent denies UN announcements on death toll reaching (11,300 dead) in Derna

A spokesman for the Libyan Red Crescent denied on Sunday that the death toll from the floods that struck the city of Derna in the east of the country had reached 11,300 people, according to what the United Nations announced on Saturday, citing the association.

Spokesman Tawfiq Shukri told Agence France-Presse, “We, to the secretariat, are surprised that our name is included in such statistics even though we did not declare these numbers,” considering that it “confuses the situation, especially the families of missing people.” The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had reported that the toll from the floods had risen to 11,300 dead and 10,100 missing, and attributed these numbers to the Libyan Red Crescent.