Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta's border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67

Spain has erected a 500-meter sea barrier along the border of its North African territory Ceuta with Morocco. This action follows a massive influx of migrants earlier in the week, during which tens of thousands breached the frontier. The crisis resulted in the deaths of at least 67 migrants, some of whom drowned and others who perished in a stampede while attempting to cross a breakwater. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez strongly condemned the responses from some European Union leaders. He characterized calls for Spain to be suspended from the EU's borderless Schengen zone as being "driven by prejudice, fake news, ignorance, or political interest.” Soldiers escorted a small number of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta's Tarajal beach on Saturday. The majority of the estimated 50,000 to 60,000 individuals who entered Ceuta between Thursday and Friday have since returned.

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