Spain's Interior Ministry said around 50,000 people had crossed the border from Morocca to Ceuta since Thursday morning, and estimated that 48,300 had returned by 6 p.m. on Friday.

Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, has urged the Spanish government to declare a national emergency and take control of managing the crisis in the autonomous city. #EuropeNews

Some 60,000 people from Morocco surged into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.