Hungarian rescue teams will soon arrive in the Libyan port city of Derna to begin a search and rescue mission after the dams protecting the city collapsed due to heavy rain earlier this week, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.
Hungary has been in constant contact with the Libyan authorities since the disaster struck, and the foreign ministry has allocated 14 million forints (EUR 36,000) to send a team of 37 people and 3 dogs to help with search and rescue efforts, Szijjártó said in a post on Facebook.
Here is a video of the devastation in Derna:
The members of the Pest County Search and Rescue Service, the Budapest Rescue Organisation and the Inter Rescue Group are travelling to Libya via Türkiye, with the Turkish authorities and the diplomats of the Hungarian embassy there working to make sure that the Hungarian team can begin its mission in Derna as soon as possible, the minister said.
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