Updated On: 22 September, 2023 09:03 AM IST | Cairo | Agencies
The outage was caused by fiber-optic cables being severed Tuesday, Libya’s state-owned telecommunications company said

Collapsed buildings seen after the flooding in Derna. Pic/AP
A day-long communication outage in a flood-stricken city in eastern Libya further complicated the work of teams searching for bodies under the rubble and at sea Wednesday. The outage was caused by fiber-optic cables being severed Tuesday, Libya’s state-owned telecommunications company said. Engineers were investigating to determine whether it happened because of digging for bodies or was sabotage, the company’s spokesman, Mohamed al-Bdairi, told a local television station.