A teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother did not, drowning in the Mediterranean, while their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of people surged through the breakwater, trying to leave Morocco behind. More than 800 minors, four days after the collective push by migrants into Ceuta, face a scary present and an uncertain future.

Explainer on why thousands of migrants are crossing from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, the deadly risks and the wider EU border tensions.

Up to to 60,000 migrants crossed in Ceuta from Morocco in a deadly mass border rush