More than 6,000 people, an estimated 1,500 of them children, have crossed into Spain's northern African enclave of Ceuta since Monday, in an unprecedented influx that left Spanish officials scrambling to cope with a humanitarian and diplomatic.
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One migrant drowned as hundreds attempted to swim or wade along the coast to reach Spanish soil in Ceuta. AFP
Morocco intervenes after migrants reach Spanish enclaves in record influx
Wed, 19 May 2021
Moroccan security forces intervened on May 18 after a record 6,000 migrants crossed largely unimpeded into a Spanish North African enclave amid diplomatic tensions between Rabat and Madrid.
Reinforcements deployed at Morocco’s Fnideq border crossing with the enclave of Ceuta and fired tear gas to disperse a large crowd of would-be migrants who had gathered in the hope of seizing a rare opportunity to slip across, an AFP correspondent reported.
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Record 5,000 migrants reach Spain s Ceuta enclave in one day A spokesman for the Spanish government delegation in Ceuta said the scale of the influx, which comes at a time of high tension between Madrid and Rabat, was unprecedented and could yet rise. Migrants speak with Spanish Civil guards after swimming to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on May 17, 2021. Antonio Sempere / AFP
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CEUTA, Spain - At least 5,000 migrants, about a thousand of them minors, reached Spain s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday from neighbouring Morocco, Spanish officials said, a record in a single day.
A spokesman for the Spanish government delegation in Ceuta said the scale of the influx, which comes at a time of high tension between Madrid and Rabat, was unprecedented and could yet rise.