DERNA, Libya: Communications were severed on Tuesday to the flood-hit eastern Libyan city of Derna, and journalists were asked to leave, a day after hundreds protested against authorities they blamed for the massive death toll.

A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two aging river dams upstream from the city on the night of September 10 and demolished entire neighborhoods, sweeping untold thousands into the Mediterranean Sea.

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