What happened at Ceuta and where the migration route runs
A migration explainer reported a surge of people trying to reach Spain from Morocco, with the Ceuta incident as the key example. Ceuta is a Spanish territory in the European Union and one of the EU’s land borders with Africa.
Reported numbers and course of the attempt (as described in the explainer):
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