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Libyan authorities declared a state of emergency on Sunday evening in areas of the municipality of Rabiana, located about 150 kilometers from the city of Kufra in the southeast of the country, as a result of the rains and floods that hit the area.
The Shura and Qadrfi areas were specifically identified in the emergency declaration, and all affected residents, including citizens and foreigners, were called upon to immediately head to the Al-Manara and Al-Mustaqbal schools in Shura or the Musab bin Umair school in Qadrfi to take shelter.
The declaration comes after warnings issued by the National Center for Meteorology earlier about the formation of thunderstorms, which may particularly affect the southern regions and the border areas with Chad, Sudan and Niger.
The city of Kufra witnessed record rainfall amounts not recorded since 1952, and the Meteorological Center reported that the city received 46 millimeters of rain in just one hour.
The emergency department also indicated that 26 cases were evacuated from the Martyr Attia Al-Kassah Hospital in Kufra, in addition to rescuing 19 Sudanese whose homes collapsed due to the severity of the rain and winds.
The Prime Minister-designate of the House of Representatives, Osama Hamad, warned of the possibility of increasing the amount of rain in the city of Kufra in the coming hours, calling on citizens to stay away as much as possible from the areas where valleys flow to preserve their safety.
Kufra is located in southeastern Libya near the Sahara Desert, which leads to an arid desert climate, and rainfall rates are low, as it records approximately 0.54 mm of rain annually, making it one of the driest areas in the country, and witnesses very high temperatures reaching 45 degrees Celsius in the summer, and the current climate phenomenon is considered unusual given the nature of the desert climate of the region.
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