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CEUTA \u2014 The death toll from Thursday\u2019s\u00a0mass rush\u00a0into Spain\u2019s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco \u200creached at least 72 on Sunday as five more bodies were found along Ceuta\u2019s coast, officials said.<\/p>\n

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More than 50,000 people crossed into Ceuta by land and sea in an unprecedented surge that began on Thursday at one of the European Union\u2019s only two land \u200bborders with Africa, prompting alarm across the bloc. More than 48,000\u00a0returned\u00a0to Morocco within 48 hours and \u200bmore again over the weekend, Spanish authorities said.<\/p>\n

The Spanish government representative in Ceuta, Miguel Angel \u2060Perez, told reporters on Sunday that, in addition to the 72 fatalities, more than 1,000 people had been treated \u200bby health services since Thursday. The situation in the city had improved markedly, he said, but more remained to \u200bbe done to re-establish normality.<\/p>\n

Some migrants drowned and others were crushed while trying to climb a breakwater and border fence. Many had been\u00a0driven to migrate\u00a0by economic hardship and encouraged by social media rumors.<\/p>\n

Spanish border patrols reinforced in Ceuta<\/h2>\n

\u201cIt pains me deeply that young \u200bpeople are dying at sea. It\u2019s not right that, in the year 2026, women with children as young as \u200btwo months old should be crossing the sea only to die,\u201d said Karima Abenaz, a French national in Ceuta with family \u200cin Morocco, \u2060holding back tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Morocco, there\u2019s food, there\u2019s everything we need,\u201d she added. \u201cIf we don\u2019t have a decent job, we should go on strike and demand our rights from the government. We shouldn\u2019t be dying at sea, it\u2019s not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ceuta leader Juan Jesus Vivas told the newspaper El Pais the city\u2019s morgue had received 88 corpses, including some who \u200bhad died in earlier, smaller \u200battempts to reach the \u2060territory in hazardous night-time swims over the past two weeks. He said Moroccan authorities were also recovering bodies from the sea, but no official information was available.<\/p>\n

Authorities have reinforced \u200bpolice and army patrols and on Saturday installed a 1,600-foot floating barrier off \u200bCeuta.<\/p>\n

Twenty-two EU \u2060member states wrote a letter asking for coordinated action to protect external borders and other measures after the Ceuta incident.\u00a0Italy suspended\u00a0passport-free Schengen travel arrangements with Spain for one month.<\/p>\n

Spain has adopted a more open stance on migrants than most \u2060other EU \u200bcountries, introducing a\u00a0program to grant residency\u00a0to more than half a million \u200bundocumented people.<\/p>\n

It has rejected suggestions that the scheme encouraged the rush into Ceuta, saying that those who entered Ceuta irregularly could not travel \u200bon to mainland Spain or elsewhere in the Schengen zone.<\/p>\n

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