CEUTA, Spain: At least 34 migrants died when 60,000 people entered Spain’s Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours, territory’s president said on Friday. The number of people who crossed the border is equivalent to 70 percent of the city’s regular population. “The situation that Ceuta is going through is absolutely unsustainable,” said Juan Jesús Vivas on Friday. The border crisis boiled over Thursday and continued on Friday with security forces clashing with migrants on the Moroccan side of the border.

Officials estimate that more than 49,000 people crossed between Morocco and Ceuta in a 24-hour period.

At least 18 migrants have died trying to reach the Spanish territory of Ceuta, where Spain has deployed its military after thousands breached the border with Morocco.