Rabat – Heavy rain and flash floods have struck northern Morocco’s coastal city of Tetouan, inundating residential districts and main thoroughfares and leaving residents grappling with surging water levels.
Videos circulating on social media show water flooding into neighborhoods as downpours overwhelmed drains.
Footage shared online captures streets submerged in knee‑to waist‑high water.
Unofficial reports and eyewitness testimony on social media indicate widespread disruption across the city’s residential zones, prompting urgent calls from citizens for stronger municipal responses to chronic drainage problems.
Many residents argue that repeated flood incidents are symptomatic of deeper infrastructural issues.
Some social media users have pointed to what they describe as defective or outdated drainage systems, suggesting that years of underinvestment have left Tetouan’s infrastructure unable to cope with increasingly intense rainfall events.
These criticisms echo broader public frustrations over urban planning and flood preparedness.
Officials have not yet released a detailed assessment of casualties or structural damage in Tetouan.
Morocco has also witnessed Safi drown over the weekend due to heavy rains.
Torrential storms swept through the area and caused flash floods that overwhelmed homes, businesses, and transportation links in under an hour.
Authorities reported today that at least 37 deaths and 14 injured, with the injured currently receiving treatment.
Floodwaters inundated dozens of homes and commercial properties, swept vehicles off the roads, and damaged key transport routes around the city.
Emergency services and public agencies were deployed across Safi’s affected districts to assist trapped residents, restore vital infrastructure, and search for anyone still missing.
