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Collapsed migrant who swam to Ceuta aided by troops and medics amid border rush crisis

A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta's urban Tarajal beach Saturday (1 August) morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border.

Several health care workers were also seen carrying out people on stretchers outside the border fence of Ceuta.

Spain's interior ministry says the majority of those who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco.

More than 60 people are now reported to have died after around 60,000 crossed into the North African territory from Morocco on Thursday.

They included some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea after the migrants breached the tiny Spanish territory’s frontier between Thursday and Friday.