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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: The Libya floods and the destruction that followed
Description: You can’t control a storm. Especially one as bad as Storm Daniel.
But when two dams which hadn’t been maintained since 2002 break; when authorities tell thousands of people to stay at home instead of evacuating them the night that Derna was swept into the sea; then you start to wonder, how much more could have been done to prevent the deaths of 11,000 people?
Entire neighbourhoods gone. Families killed in their own homes. Bodies turning up after the waves had brought them back to land. Search and rescue teams telling whomever has remained alive to qu...