Hundreds of people were converging on Morocco's northern town of Fnideq on Thursday evening, following rumours that the border with Spain's Ceuta had opened, according to an AFP journalist

While good weather usually brings a surge in migrant crossings by sea in the summer, Ceuta authorities said the current number of swimmers is unusual. #EuropeNews

More than 800 Moroccan and Algerian migrants attempted to swim to the Spanish city of Ceuta in North Africa.

Hundreds of migrants flood into Spain's Ceuta exclave from Morocco