The United Nations has said that most of the thousands of deaths in Libya's flood disaster could have been averted if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly.
With better functioning coordination in the crisis-wracked country, the human toll could have been far smaller, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said Thursday.
It warned that other conflict-hit countries faced similar, dangerous deficiencies to their early warning systems.
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