Near the southern city of Guelmim alone, 24 people died, with 11 bodies recovered from a valley which is normally a dry riverbed but had been turned into a raging torrent by flooding.
TV footage showed swiftly running waters from the Oued Talmaadart cutting across a highway, leaving cars stranded in the middle and people taking refuge on top of their vehicles.
In several cases, the waters swept away old inter-city taxis and the local press added that many of the dead and missing came from the same families caught in vehicles carried downstream.
The army and national police rescued 214 people, including 40 by helicopter. Two French nationals were also rescued.
Other footage showed overturned 18-wheeler trucks by the side of a road under several inches of water as other vehicles slowly drove by.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/24/morocco-flooding-32-killed-stranded
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