Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta’s border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67

Spain on Saturday installed a 500-metre-long (1,600-foot) barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after tens of thousands of migrants breached the frontier earlier in the week.

Spain has installed a 500-meter containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and Morocco

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez criticised the reaction of some other European Union leaders to the events in Ceuta.

The death toll climbed to 67, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday.

A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border.

According to Spanish authorities, about 50,000 people had crossed into Ceuta by land and sea from Morocco in an unprecedented surge at one of the European Union's only land borders with Africa.

Most migrants who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco, Spain’s interior ministry says

Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after calm night following border rush  Reuters

CEUTA, Spain, Aug 1 - Spain said migrant crossings into its North African enclave of Ceuta had stopped overnight, as police began installing a 500-metre (1,640-foot) floating barrier on Saturday off its border with Morocco following a mass rush that killed at least 67 people.

Most of those who surged into the territory, a Spanish exclave in Africa, have returned across the border to Morocco. At least 67 people died trying to enter, the authorities said.