After the Morocco floods, at least 11 people were killed, and nine others went missing, the Interior Ministry announced in a tentative report on Sunday, according to local media. Seven deaths were reported in Tata province, while four others, including a foreign individual, were discovered in Errachidia and Tiznit provinces, ministry spokesperson Rachid El Khalfi told reporters in Rabat. According to the speaker, the missing people are from Tata, Errachidia, and Taroudant provinces.

The Morocco floods also caused significant material damage, including the collapse of 40 dwellings and the damage of 93 road sections. Traffic has been restored to 53 of the impacted sectors. The rains also impacted electricity, drinking water, and telephone networks.

According to the Ministry of Equipment and Water, approximately 200 workers and 96 earthmovers have been dispatched to restore traffic in the affected areas. According to the spokesperson, the Interior Ministry asked area residents and visitors to exercise great caution due to the inclement weather and obey all instructions provided by authorities.

Khalfi additionally indicated that “the volume of precipitation recorded in two days is equivalent to that which these regions normally experience during an entire year.”

The floodwaters also destroyed 40 homes, damaged 93 roads, and “affected electricity, drinking water, and telephone networks,” he said.

Officials said heavy rains normally flooded desert parts of southern Morocco and Algeria.

According to Lhoussaine Youabd, a spokesman for the Moroccan General Directorate of Meteorology, southern Morocco has been struck “by an extremely unstable tropical air mass.”

He said, “This led to the formation of unstable and violent clouds” that brought significant rainfall, calling the situation “exceptional.”

According to the Moroccan weather office, the Ouarzazate region received 47 millimetres of water in three hours, while Tagounite, near the Algerian border, received over 170 millimetres.

“We haven’t seen such rain in about ten years,” Omar Gana, an Ouarzazate resident, said. Morocco has been experiencing drought for at least six years, and the big rains have reached those areas.

Near a previous toll, Algerian civil defence stated one person died near Illizi, about 1,900 kilometres south of Algiers, while another was missing in flooding in the south. Later that day, it reported two people missing in El Bayadh and Tamanrasset. It also stated that it has rescued numerous families caught in flooding rivers in the south.

Social media videos showed that some regions of the Sahara desert had been soaked. In the Moroccan city of Ouarzazate, entire streets were inundated.

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