UN chief calls Libya flood 'sad snapshot' of global injustice
UN boss Antonio Guterres has said the devastating floods in Libya has exposed the world’s inequalities.
Antonio Guterres says whereas bodies are washing ashore in the Mediterranean Sea in Libya, the rich are operating their yachts on the water body. / Photo: AA / Others
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called a flood that killed thousands in Derna, Libya a symbol of the world's ills as he opened the annual General Assembly on Tuesday.
"Even as we speak now, bodies are washing ashore from the same Mediterranean Sea where billionaires sunbathe on their super yachts," Guterres said.
"Derna is a sad snapshot of the state of our world – the flood of inequity, of injustice, of inability to confront the challenges in our midst."