Ceuta grapples with child migrants as Spain approves millions to deal with crisis
- Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska gave a fresh estimate of the migrants who pushed into Ceuta last week, as European Union ministers discussed the crisis on Tuesday.
- Grande-Marlaska said a total of around 72,000 had arrived on the Spanish frontier last week, and that 70,000 had since returned to Morocco.
- Local official Alejandro Ramírez, however, said that it was impossible to know the exact number, which he estimated to be closer to 3,000 to 5,000 remaining in the city.
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- Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska gave a fresh estimate of the migrants who pushed into Ceuta last week, as European Union ministers discussed the crisis on Tuesday.
- Grande-Marlaska said a total of around 72,000 had arrived on the Spanish frontier last week, and that 70,000 had since returned to Morocco.
- Local official Alejandro Ramírez, however, said that it was impossible to know the exact number, which he estimated to be closer to 3,000 to 5,000 remaining in the city.
Sources: CBC