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Independent World
UK · 12 mins ago

‘I saw people stepping on the dead’: The 1,000 children migrants stuck in Ceuta

After the bodies have been recovered from the waters off Ceuta, and those who made their way through the waters have gone back to Morocco, there will still be over 1,000 migrant children left in the Spanish enclave. Left without their families in a foreign land.In the enclave city, shops are open nearly a week after it became the epicenter of a European migration crisis.But an estimated 1,000 minors — among the most vulnerable of those who crossed the border — remain in Ceuta.One 17-year-old girl told The Associated Press how she watched her eight-year brother drown as migrants made a chaotic crossing around a breakwater and a subsequent stampede on the rocky shore to avoid the border fence last Thursday at the peak of the migration surge. She was separated from her mother and has been beg
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