Moin Kikhia warns deaths exceeding 40,000 from floods in Cyrenaica in Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail

14th September 2023

Moin Kikhia warned of a death toll exceeding 40,000 from the recent floods in Cyrenaica in the Daily Telegraph on the 13th September 2023.

Moin Kikhia, a former civil servant in Libya’s finance ministry, said that the self-proclaimed government that runs the east of the country fears that the true toll could be in the tens of thousands.

“The number of deaths is much larger than first thought but no one has exact numbers. The government thinks it might exceed 40,000 dead but no one wants to say it for fear of making the people angry,” Mr Kikhia, the founder of the Libyan Democratic Institute, told the Telegraph.

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Moin's comments were reiterated in the Daily Mail.

Moin Kikhia, a former civil servant in Libya’s finance ministry and the founder of the Libyan Democratic Institute, told The Telegraph: 'The number of deaths is much larger than first thought but no one has the exact numbers. The government thinks it might exceed 40,000 dead but no one wants to say it for fear of making the people angry.'

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