Moroccan authorities announced on Sunday the demise of 11 people due to severe torrential rains in Morocco’s southern provinces of Tata, Tiznit, and Errachidia, reported France 24.
Interior ministry Spokesman Rachid Khalfi said that authorities recorded an initial “toll of 11 deaths” after “heavy thunderstorms” that hit “17 prefectures and provinces in the kingdom”.
They also announced that nine people are still missing and one of the victims had foreign citizenship, without providing further details.
The rains have caused several material damages including the collapse of approximately 40 homes and 93 roads.
The heavy floods also affected the local infrastructure such as electricity, drinking water and telephone communications.
As a response to the crisis, the Ministry of Equipment and Water has mobilized almost 200 personnel along with 96 earthmoving machines to restore the traffic and repair damaged infrastructure in the affected areas.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Interior has urged all citizens and residents to be extremely cautious due to the ongoing unstable weather conditions.
The Spokesman for the Moroccan General Directorate of Meteorology, Lhoussaine Youabd, explained that the reason behind the floods is the extremely unstable tropical air mass that formed unstable and violent clouds and thus caused massive rainfall.
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