<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The United Nations is urgently seeking more than $71 million to assist those most in need after deadly flash floods swept Libya over the weekend.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hurricane-strength Storm Daniel slammed into Libya on September 10, killing at least 4,000 people, with thousands more still missing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a flash appeal Thursday, the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA said it expects the toll to rise.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The city of Derna, one of the hardest-hit locations, was reduced to a wasteland after two upstream dams burst Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">OCHA said estimates suggest 30 percent of the city may have disappeared and with most roads collapsed local authorities are calling for a sea corridor to be established for relief and evacuations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The entire seaside town of Sousse meanwhile remains submerged.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Calling the situation "catastrophic", OCHA said its humanitarian partners need $71.4 million to respond to the "most urgent needs of 250,000 people targeted out of the 884,000 people estimated to be in need".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Wednesday, UN OCHA head Martin Griffiths had announced an immediate emergency fund of $10 million.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Entire neighbourhoods have been wiped off the map. Whole families, taken by surprise, were swept away in the deluge of water," he said in a statement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Getting lifesaving supplies to people, prevent a secondary health crisis, and swiftly restore some kind of normality must override any other concern at this difficult time for Libya."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The United States, European Union, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and several other countries have also already sent or pledged aid, while foreign rescue teams have been deployed to search for survivors and recover bodies. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>