An emergency vehicle drives through flood waters as residents are evacuated and relocated to other towns as preventive and emergency evacuations are carried out to move residents living near flood-prone areas following the weather alert and the rise in the water level of the Loukkos River, with flooding expected in the coming days, in Ksar El Kebir on February 1, 2026.
Residents stand in a doorway of a building surveying the flooded street in the Sidi Kacem region, in northwestern Morocco on February 5, 2026. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated since January 30, 2026, in the northwest of the country, mainly as a precaution, following exceptional rainfall that led authorities to place several provinces under weather alert.
An emergency vehicle drives through flood waters as residents are evacuated and relocated to other towns as preventive and emergency evacuations are carried out to move residents living near flood-prone areas following the weather alert and the rise in the water level of the Loukkos River, with flooding expected in the coming days, in Ksar El Kebir on February 1, 2026.
Abdel Majid BZIOUAT
Residents stand in a doorway of a building surveying the flooded street in the Sidi Kacem region, in northwestern Morocco on February 5, 2026. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated since January 30, 2026, in the northwest of the country, mainly as a precaution, following exceptional rainfall that led authorities to place several provinces under weather alert.
Authorities have evacuated more than 140,000 people from their homes since heavy rainfall flooded several provinces in northern Morocco last week, the interior ministry said Thursday.
Authorities have not announced any casualties, and the national weather service forecast heavy rains and strong winds to continue on Thursday and Friday across the north.
The severe weather came after Morocco struggled with seven consecutive years of drought.
The evacuations began last Friday and mainly concerned Larache province, where the city of Ksar El Kebir -- about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Tangier -- has seen significant flooding.
Some residents including children and elderly people were stranded on rooftops before being rescued, at times in small boats.
In Sidi Kacem province, around 120 kilometres south of Ksar El Kebir, more than 10,000 people were rescued, some by helicopter, as floodwaters inundated roads and farmland.
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