🔸These migrants who had approached the border of Spain using inflatable tubes and other floating devices entered the city after passing through the police barrier.

🔸Some media outlets estimate the number of these migrants at between 2,000 and 3,000.

🔸In 2021 as well, around 10,000 migrants—many of them minors—entered this area of Spain within a few days from Morocco and countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

🔸Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has said that immediate dispatch and deployment, along with more military and police forces, will take place in this area.

🔸The regional government of Ceuta had previously asked Madrid to deploy the army to ensure security and close the border with Morocco.

🔸Ceuta is an autonomous city on the North African coast and belongs to Spain. The city, which borders Morocco, lies along the border between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ceuta is one of the special territories of members of the European Economic Area.