Relatives of some of the victims of the devastating floods in Libya have gathered at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Dublin to receive condolences.
There was a steady stream of people arriving at the centre to offer sympathy and to hear the personal tales of loss and bereavement.
Ezzat Elhassadi, who is originally from Derna, believes he has lost 400 members of his extended family due to the floods.
"It's too much to accept or imagine," he said.
Raja Eljhdi is also originally from Derna and had just recently returned from visiting family there.
"I was there, I just come back, it's less than a couple of weeks. So I feel completely lost," she said, visibly upset.
"I have neighbours, I have family there and they are all gone. It's actually not on the map. The city centre of my city. It's like a ghost town now."
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Tibrah Bazama, a baker from Dublin who holds dual Irish and Libyan citizenship, has said she cannot put into words the impact of the devastation caused by the storm.
Speaking to RTÉ's This Week, she was in Benghazi where it struck last weekend and some members of her extended family were killed in the flooding in Derna.
She said: "I came to attend the funeral of my aunt. Her husband's family were from that location too so now her children are also in mourning over the deaths of their relatives in Derna."
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Ms Bazama said everyone seems to know someone missing or displaced and described the large-scale mission that is under way to find people and also recover bodies.
She said there is a direct route from Benghazi to Derna with convoys of ambulances and trucks bringing aid to the affected areas.
She said: "There is a huge effort being sent in also from the west of Libya as well. Although there is a divide with the country between east and west, it seems in this matter or urgency it has maybe become more united than ever before."
Ms Bazama said relief workers are also arriving in from abroad to help.
Many members of the Libyan community in Ireland said their focus now was on doing their best to support their families in Derna and to try to assist in what will be a long, slow recovery process.
