Flash Floods in Morocco Kill 11, Spark Criticism Over Lack of Safety Measures

The heavy rainfall with a stormy character, which had coincided with the end of a football match, caused at least eleven deaths and several missing persons. Material damage was also recorded in several localities.

Videos posted on social media showed a horrible scene of a building completely destroyed by the torrential rains, sweeping away all the people who had taken refuge there.

A football field had been built in the bed of a dried-up river where the risk of flooding is very high. Despite the warnings of some civil society actors, the local authorities had not taken their grievances into account.