DEATH TOLL FROM MIGRANT RUSH INTO SPAIN’S CEUTA RISES TO 72

The death toll from Thursday’s mass rush into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco reached at least 72 on Sunday as five more bodies were found along Ceuta’s coast, officials said. More than 50,000 people crossed ‌into Ceuta by land and sea in an unprecedented surge that began on Thursday at one of the European Union’s only two land borders with Africa, prompting alarm across the bloc.

News - South China Morning Post reports that the death toll from Thursday’s mass rush into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco reached at least 72 on Sunday as five more bodies were found along Ceuta’s coast, officials said.

The report adds: More than 50,000 people crossed ‌into Ceuta by land and sea in an unprecedented surge that began on Thursday at one of the European Union’s only two land borders with Africa, prompting alarm across the bloc.

More than 48,000 returned to Morocco within 48 hours and more again over the weekend, Spanish...

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