The Moroccan authorities had, until this point, not reported any casualties, but said they had evacuated over 150,000 people since the flooding started.

The four dead were in a car in Tetouan when the vehicle was caught in "sudden flooding" on a road near a major river, officials said in a statement.

Search teams first recovered the bodies of a 14-year-old girl and the two-year-old child on Saturday night, the statement said.

Two more bodies, those of a 12-year-old boy and a man in this thirties, were found on Sunday morning.

The search for the fifth person was ongoing, the statement added.

Provinces across northwestern Morocco have been battered by heavy rainfall over the past week.

The national weather service forecast further bad weather through Tuesday.