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A United Nations official says its humanitarian affairs agency is rushing all the aid and staff it can into Libya, following devastating flooding.

Georgette Gagnon is the UN's Assistant Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya. She told Newsday: 鈥淭he damage is immense. The magnitude of the tragedy, the destruction, what we鈥檒l need to rebuild, the missing, the loss of life is really unprecedented in the country. Every system that they had in place has been seriously damaged. Electricity, infrastructure, communications, schools, hospitals, dams, bridges, roads, houses, livelihoods, some farmland was seriously flooded.鈥�

She added: 鈥淭he most immediate priority is search and rescue equipment鈥�urgent food, medical support, medical supplies, water of course and shelter鈥�We have had a World Health Organization medical team in Derna and in the surrounding area since yesterday and we have some convoys of these essential life-saving supplies on the road now, which we understand should arrive shortly.鈥�

(Picture: Shows aid destined for Libya being loaded in to a French Air Force Airbus A400M-180 aircraft. Credit: Christophe Simon / AFP via Getty Images.)

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