Flooding in Libya sent a wall of water through Derna and other places. These photos show the devastation.

The devastating flooding in Libya wreaked havoc on the city of Derna on the Mediterranean coast and other places in the northern African nation, destroying buildings, ripping up roads and crashing cars against anything in its way.

A storm system that lashed three countries last week forced dams in Libya to collapse, sending unprecedented flash floods down a river valley.

Scores of people died in the disaster, which an official for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies compared to the powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late last week.