The mayor of Libya's eastern city of Derna was detained along with other officials on suspicion of mismanagement and negligence over the collapse of dams that flooded the city two weeks ago.
The small first-floor apartment in Derna became home away from home to Syrian migrant Ammar Kanaan, after the risk of drowning kept him from attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Europe.
People whose homes were swept away by flooding in Libya's Derna faced the dilemma of whether to stay and risk infection or flee through areas where landmines have been displaced by the torrents.
The aftermath of Libya's worst ever natural disaster was evolving into a political storm after demonstrators furious at the failure to protect their city from a flood torched.
Residents of Derna in eastern Libya were counting their losses from a flood that devastated swathes of the coastal city as the search for the missing continued for a sixth day.
