Spain Morocco Border | Hundreds Of Migrants Who Had Crossed Into Ceuta Have Returned To Morocco

Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa this week had walked back to Morocco by Sunday, officials said. Spanish civil guard ships continued searching for migrant bodies in the waters near the stretch of urban beach that tens of thousand of migrants had breached days earlier. At least 72 migrants died, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, Spanish authorities said Sunday. The humanitarian crisis caused by the sudden rush of people has reignited a debate around immigration in Europe and beyond. Some migrants said they risked making the crossing because of a lack of opportunities in Morocco. Relatives of those who made the crossing waited on the Moroccan side of the border for news of their loved ones. Spain has now installed a 500-meter-long (1,600-foot) barrier on the sea border between Ceuta and neighboring Morocco following the incident.