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11 died in mass crossing to Spain; migration fueled by misinformation of court ruling — Moroccan Interior Ministry
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Relatives and friends wait by a fence topped with barbed-wire for the return of people who had previously crossed into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, at Morocco’s Bab Sebta border crossing, on August 2, 2026. (Abdel Majid BZIOUAT/AFP)
RABAT, Morocco — Morocco’s Interior Ministry says that recent mass crossings to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla were fueled by misinformation on social media, human trafficking networks, and misinterpretation of a Spanish ruling banning immediate returns of migrants intercepted at sea.
About 40,000 people were involved in the mass crossing into Ceuta, and 1,135 were stopped from entering Melilla, the ministry says in a statement.
Eleven people died, mostly by drowning while crossing, the ministry says, noting that it was fact-checking reports on deaths from the other side of the border.
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