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In Derna alone, 6,000 people are feared to be missing and more than 20,000 displaced, according to the International Rescue Committee, which described the flooding as an \"unprecedented humanitarian crisis.\"

Gen. Khalifa Haftar, head of the powerful Libyan military faction that controls the eastern part of the divided country, confirmed in a televised address on Tuesday that rescue and relief efforts were underway.

\"We issued immediate instructions to use all our capabilities, provide the needed support of all urgent medical equipment, operate medical convoys and to allocate shelters to those who lost their homes,\" Haftar said. \"We have directed the government to form a specialized committee to assess the damage, instantly begin the reconstruction of roads to facilitate transportation, restore the electricity and to take all immediate and needed measures in that regards.\"

The United States, Germany, Italy, Iran, Qatar and Turkey are among the countries that have said they have sent or are ready to send aid to Libya. But getting aid into the affected areas has proven difficult with many roads blocked.

Some aid has started to arrive, including from Egypt, but rescue efforts have also been hampered by the current political situation in Libya, with the country split between two warring governments -- one in the east and the other in the west.

Egypt’s presidency said Wednesday it would send a Mistral helicopter carrier to Libya to serve as a field hospital. Egypt has sent three military aid planes carrying drugs, medical supplies and search and rescue teams. It said it was sending another 10 aircraft carrying medical staff to help evacuate survivors.

Egypt has recovered the bodies of 87 Egyptians killed in Libya’s floods on Wednesday, the Egyptian emigration ministry said in a statement. TV footage showed a line of ambulances carrying bodies driving through crowds of wailing families in a village in the Beni Suef province, home to most of the victims.

Officials had said earlier at least 170 Egyptians had been confirmed dead, according to Osama Ali, a spokesman for the Ambulance and Emergency Center in Libya.

ABC News' Zoe Magee, Joe Simonetti and Ayat Al-Tawy contributed to this report.

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