United Nations estimates at least 11,300 people are dead. The city had a population of around 100,000 before the tragedy.
When he went home an hour later, it took very little time between the moment he heard the dam burst and the gushing water flooding his street.He moved the family to the rooftop, and they climbed up a water tank as the water kept rising. They survived. "Maybe one percent of those who lived on ground floors survived," he says of his neighborhood around al-Fanar street.
Only few traces are left behind of what the shops lining the street used to sell. Pieces of metal dangle from the ceilings of gutted out stores. Vehicles are wedged in terraces and entrances of the low-rise buildings. A purple lunch box sits under a mangle of trees and light post. A couple of blocks up north, the rubble piled up along the sides of the road rises higher and higher until it becomes a swath of debris.
Back at al-Fanar street, a man calls for help to dig out the bodies of four children from under the mud.
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