Migrants walk towards the Fnideq region in northern Morocco after leaving Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta near the town of Fnideq, on the Morocco-Spain border, following an attempted to cross at the Bab Sebta border crossing, on the Morocco- (Photo by Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP)
Madrid: At least 67 people died in the recent surge in migrant crossing from Morocco to Spain's north African enclave Ceuta, Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters on Saturday.
Most of the migrants had returned by Saturday back to Morocco after tens of thousands crossed over the border, most by swimming around the small frontier post that juts into the Mediterranean Sea.
