Corpses pile up in the streets of derna. The city council dares to estimate more than 20,000 deaths. Five days after the passage of Cyclone Daniel, the air begins to be unbreathable. Decomposition permeates everything. In Libya, a broken state in itself, everything is missing. Even body bags.

He risk of epidemics increases and volunteers and emergency services cannot cope. “The State cannot handle this. The international community has to take care of it,” insists a resident of Derna.

Although the whole world wants to turn, it is not easy, experts say. He country, literally fractured and precipitated by an abyss of chaos and poverty, it has two governments in armed conflict and more militias and warlords than institutions or public services.

“When you intend to give some kind of help It is not clear which is the valid interlocutor“, assures from the Institute of Conflicts and Humanitarian Action Jesus Nunez. The institutions are so dysfunctional that They did not issue weather alerts that would have prevented most of the deaths, according to United Nations.

Apparently, nor did they correct the known deficiencies of the dams that broke and released 30 million cubic meters of water. In one day it rained 260 times as much as it rains in a month. Thus, experts assure that it was impossible for them to resist such a storm.

Despite everything, many ordinary Libyans today remain with the belief that tragedies unite a lot and are lending their shoulder to this unspeakable tragedy.