The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) informed BBC News that around 10% of the people who died during the recent floods in Libya were migrants.
Many migrants really like Libya. According to information from the IOM, a group associated with the United Nations, more than 706,000 people who moved from one place to another lived in a country in North Africa in February 2023.
Some people live and work in Libya for a long time, while others use it as a place to stay temporarily before trying to reach Europe.
Around 400 migrants are known to have died in the floods, according to the IOM. However, this number may change as more bodies are found.
The IOM and World Health Organization have confirmed that 3,900 people have died. But, different officials have used different methods and gotten different numbers. For example, the mayor of Derna in Libya thinks that more than 20,000 people have died.
Derna was affected the most by the floods. Two dams broke because of a lot of rain and parts of the city were covered in water.
Around 10,000 migrants were living in the port city before the flood. The IOM believes that the number of migrants who died will be especially high because they were living in areas that are very prone to flooding, according to Federico Soda, the director of emergencies at the IOM.
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Migrants factor in about 10% of known flood deaths in Libya
