Spain says the deaths include drownings and a fatal crush at a breakwater after roughly 60,000 people entered the enclave from Morocco. An uneasy calm returned to Ceuta as Spain installed a containment barrier and said most of the people who crossed had gone back to Morocco.
Spain’s government said the confirmed death toll from the Ceuta border crisis had risen to 67 by Saturday. Authorities said some victims drowned while others died in a crush at the breakwater barrier separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave. Roughly 60,000 people breached the frontier on Thursday and Friday, a movement approaching three quarters of Ceuta’s resident population of about 84,000.
Spanish officials said the majority of those who entered had already returned to Morocco by Saturday. Spain began installing a roughly 500-meter containment barrier along the breakwater where many crossings and deaths occurred. Security forces remained deployed while the enclave moved from the immediate surge into identification, recovery and border-control work.
Ceuta is a Spanish territory on the North African coast and the European Union’s only land border with Morocco alongside Melilla. The current toll is a major increase from the first confirmed deaths reported during the initial breach. Spanish and Moroccan cooperation determines both routine border control and the pace at which people can return.
At the publication cutoff, the checked record establishes the following limit: The published toll may change as recovery and identification continue, and authorities have not provided a complete accounting of missing people or deaths on the Moroccan side. The next public records expected to update this account are updated casualty and missing-person totals and the durability of Moroccan-Spanish border cooperation and operation of the new barrier.
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