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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Spain says migrants are returning from Ceuta after 57 die in border rush

Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the ​more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea ​already heading back voluntarily.

The Spanish government's representative in Ceuta said 57 bodies had been recovered on the Spanish side of the border and that ​there could be additional casualties on the Moroccan side. It said some drowned and some were crushed while trying to climb the breakwater that holds the border fence.

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