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At least 34 migrants trying to reach the Spanish territory of\u00a0Ceuta<\/a>\u00a0have died after breaching the border from Morocco, as tens of thousands of people\u00a0entered the enclave<\/a>\u00a0\u2060in the past 24 \u2060hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Juan Jesus Vivas, the regional president of the North African Spanish enclave, confirmed the death toll to reporters on Friday, without giving details about how the victims died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said about 60,000 people had crossed from Morocco into Ceuta by land and sea, many by swimming around a border barrier stretching into the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who travelled to Ceuta on Friday, said his government was mobilising all available resources in response to the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sanchez called the crossings a \u201cviolation\u201d of Spanish territorial sovereignty, saying that authorities were speeding up the repatriation of this week\u2019s arrivals. Spain\u2019s Ministry of Interior said some 25,000 people were returned from Ceuta to Morocco so far on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rachid Sbihi, who leads a local workers\u2019 association representing Civil Guard officers in Ceuta, called the situation a \u201cserious humanitarian crisis\u201d, saying thousands of migrants, including unaccompanied children, were sleeping on sidewalks, while others roamed the streets aimlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among those who died, many drowned, Sbihi told The Associated Press news agency, but some were also killed in a stampede to cross the breakwater fence at Tarajal beach, an urban beach near a border checkpoint with Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gates into Ceuta, Moroccan authorities had deployed water cannon trucks and pushed people back. The \u2060charred remains of a bus and seven cars could be seen nearby from clashes with the crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Al Jazeera: At least 34 migrants trying to reach the Spanish territory of\u00a0Ceuta\u00a0have died after breaching the border from Morocco, as tens of thousands of people\u00a0entered the enclave\u00a0\u2060in the past 24 \u2060hours. Juan Jesus Vivas, the regional president of the North African Spanish enclave, confirmed the death toll to reporters on Friday, without giving details about how the victims died. He said about 60,000 people had crossed from Morocco into Ceuta by land and sea, many by swimming around a border barrier stretching into the water. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who travelled to Ceuta on Friday, said his government… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60007,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60005\/revisions\/60007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}