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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Okba Mohammad in Ceuta and Ashifa Kassam in Madrid

‘We have no tents or blankets’: Ceuta migrants struggle to survive brutal heat and freezing nights

A woman from Morocco sits in shade with other migrants next to a child's inflatable ring. They are waiting and sleeping in the open. In Ceuta, Spain, on Thursday.
A woman from Morocco and other migrants wait and sleep in the open in Ceuta, Spain, on Thursday. Photograph: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters

Along the wide avenues and tree-lined plazas of Ceuta’s centre, there were few hints of the recent events that catapulted the Spanish enclave on the north African coast into global headlines.

But less than a mile away from the bustling bars and restaurants, at the nearby El Trampolín beach, the lingering impact was impossible to ignore.

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