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CEUTA: Almost all of the tens of thousands of migrants who entered Spain’s enclave of Ceuta in North Africa had left by Saturday, officials said, as some EU countries bolstered their border controls over the sudden influx.
An estimated 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta over just a few days from neighbouring Morocco, the enclave’s regional president Juan Jesus Vivas told reporters, but by Saturday almost all had left.
“The situation has been almost entirely reversed,” interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters.
Under the watch of Spanish soldiers and police, the remaining young migrants continued crossing back over the border to Morocco.
