Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after migration influx– www.france24.com

Spain said migrant crossings into its North African enclave of Ceuta stopped overnight, as police began installing a 500-metre (1,640-foot) floating barrier on Saturday off its border with Morocco following a mass rush that killed at least 67 people.

According to Spanish authorities, about 60,000 people had crossed ​into Ceuta by land ‌and sea from Thursday in an unprecedented surge at one of the European Union‘s only land borders with Africa. More than ⁠48,000 of them returned to Morocco within 48 hours, Spain said.

Reuters video on Saturday showed Spanish soldiers and police patrolling a mostly empty Tarajal beach shrouded in fog.