“The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67,” the Spanish government said on Saturday (August 1, 2026).

Spain announced it was installing a containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea after tens of thousands of migrants breached the tiny Spanish territory's border this week.

“The death toll in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67,” the Spanish government said on Saturday. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

Spain announced it was installing a 500-metre-long containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea after some 60,000 migrants breached the tiny Spanish territory’s frontier on Thursday and Friday (July 30 and July 31, 2026).

A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach on Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border. Spain’s Interior Ministry says the majority of those who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco.

After days of chaos and streets packed with people who had hoped for a better life in Spain, residents of Ceuta woke up on Saturday to an uneasy calm. Even so, security for residents of the autonomous city of 84,000 remained bruised.

Source: thehindu