The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.
Tens of thousands of migrants overwhelmed Spain's tiny North African territory of Ceuta in a single day, and the political fallout is now rippling across Europe as governments rush to protect their own borders. Approximately 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta within a 24-hour window, a number equal to roughly 70 percent of the […] The post 60,000 migrants flood Spain's Ceuta in 24 hours, leaving at least 41 dead and Europe scrambling appeared first on American Almanac .
Tens of thousands of migrants overwhelmed Spain's tiny North African territory of Ceuta in a single day, and the political fallout is now rippling across Europe as governments rush to protect their own borders. Approximately 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta within a 24-hour window, a number equal to roughly 70 percent of the Spanish enclave's entire population. At least 41 died in the attempt. Some drowned swimming the approximately three miles from the Moroccan coastal town of Fnideq. Others were killed in a stampede at a breakwater fence near the Tarajal beach border checkpoint. Spain deployed its armed forces and additional police to restore order, and by Friday afternoon most of the migrants who had made it across were…Open
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A stampede at a mountaintop fortress popular with tourists in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens of others, authorities said.
Authorities said the death toll could rise.
At least 30 people were killed when a crushing crowd formed at the entrance to the fortress in northern Haiti. The Citadelle is one of the country’s most famous sites.
The tragedy took place at the Citadelle Laferrière, a historic fortress in northern Haiti and one of the country’s defining symbols.