LONDON — For Ehdaa Bujeldain, an English teacher living with her family in Bab-Tobruk, in the mountains of Derna, eastern Libya, it sounded like a bomb going off in the middle of the night.
“On Sunday night, at 3 a.m., me and my family heard something like an explosion,” she tells “We lost electricity and connection. We didn’t know what had happened. Then we heard it was a dam in Derna that had collapsed.”
Four days passed with no electricity or internet, and it is only in the past couple of days that she and her family have started to learn the full extent of devastation from this week’s floods.
