Record Migration Surge Into Spain's Ceuta Exceeds 2021 Crisis, With 67 Dead

Roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta — a Spanish enclave (territory under Spanish rule on the North African coast) — in late July 2026, exceeding the 2021 crisis. Spain's Interior Ministry confirmed 67 deaths by August 1. Reuters reports social media rumours and economic hardship drove the surge, while some migrants cited lax Moroccan border enforcement.