BENGHAZI, Libya -- Nearly two weeks after a flash flood devastated the Libyan port city of Derna, the official death toll keeps rising, passing 3,800 on Saturday.
A total of 3,845 people are now confirmed to have died, said Mohamed Eljarh, spokesman for the relief committee set up by the authorities in eastern Libya.
Bodies buried by residents in the first few days after the disaster struck on the night of September 10-11 had not been included, he said.
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