Spain says migrants leaving Ceuta
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The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.
Italy has temporarily suspended the Schengen arrangement with Spain as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called scenes in Ceuta "shocking".
As thousands of Moroccans who forced their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this week were returning home, many did so with their dreams broken and newly convinced that reaching Spain was not worth the risks.
Spain has announced plans to install a 500-metre (1,600-foot) containment barrier along the sea border between its North African enclave of Ceuta and neighbouring Morocco after an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 migrants breached the frontier earlier this week.
Spain’s prime minister has rushed to Ceuta to defuse a growing crisis after an estimated 50,000 migrants poured into the Spanish exclave in North Africa from Morocco in a single day.
Video captures thousands of migrants stampeding through Ceuta as Spain's government denies the enclave president's request for a national emergency.