Madrid: At least 18 migrants have died trying to reach the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, where Spain deployed its military after thousands of people breached the border with Morocco and poured into the tiny Spanish territory.
Around 40,000 migrants have crossed in recent days from Morocco into Spain’s Cueta enclave, a police source said on Friday, as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was due to arrive there.
The influx marks the largest arrival of migrants in Cueta since 2021 – predominantly young men and adolescents – with 18 deaths reported during the crossing, according to figures released on Friday morning by the same source.
France will tighten its borders with Spain, the country’s interior minister said on Friday, after thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain’s north African Ceuta enclave. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on X that he had “given instructions to immediately step up controls at the Spanish border” on Thursday night, adding on broadcaster RTL that he had spoken with his Spanish counterpart and would do so again Friday.
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