Death toll from migrant rush into Spain’s Ceuta rises to 72
5 more bodies were found along the coast of Spain’s North African enclave, officials said, after Thursday’s mass surge from Morocco.
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The death toll from Thursday’s mass rush into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco reached at least 72 on Sunday as five more bodies were found along Ceuta’s coast, officials said.
More than 50,000 people crossed into Ceuta by land and sea in an unprecedented surge that began on Thursday at one of the European Union’s only two land borders with Africa, prompting alarm across the bloc.
More than 48,000 returned to Morocco within 48 hours and more again over the weekend, Spanish authorities said.
The Spanish government representative in Ceuta, Miguel Angel Perez, told reporters on Sunday that, in addition to the 72 fatalities, more than 1,000 people had been treated by health services since Thursday.
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