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Four members of a Greek rescue team and three members of a Libyan family have died in a road collision, according to a Libyan official.<\/p>\n
The rescuers were among a team who were travelling on a bus to the flood-ravaged city of Derna on Sunday when their vehicle collided with a car carrying the family.<\/p>\n
Two others in the car and eight others on the bus were seriously injured.<\/p>\n
Greece has launched an investigation in cooperation with Libya.<\/p>\n
Othman Abdeljalil, health minister in the administration that runs the east of the country, told a press conference the team had been travelling from the eastern city of Benghazi when the crash happened.<\/p>\n
Libya is split between two rival governments – a UN-backed administration based in the capital Tripoli, and a rival Egyptian-supported authority based in Benghazi.<\/p>\n
Greece’s armed forces said it was unclear what exactly had happened.<\/p>\n
It said in a statement that a bus carrying medical personnel collided with a vehicle moving in the opposite direction and reported that three members of Greece’s humanitarian mission had died and two were missing.<\/p>\n
Geetha added that an operation was underway to repatriate their personnel.<\/p>\n
A diplomatic source has told Greek news site Kathimerini that 16 members of the team were Greek rescuers and three were interpreters.<\/p>\n
They were on their way to join teams already on the ground from other countries including France and Italy.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people were killed when two dams above Derna broke during a powerful storm a week ago. The UN says the death toll so far stands at some 11,300.<\/p>\n
More than 10,000 more remain officially missing, according to figures from the UN’s Office for the Co-Ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n