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Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after deadly migrant rush

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Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after deadly migrant rush

Spain said migrant ​crossings into its North African enclave of Ceuta stopped overnight, as police began installing a 500-metre (1,640-foot) floating barrier on Saturday off its border ‌with Morocco following a mass rush that killed at least 67 people.

According to Spanish authorities, about 50,000 people had crossed into Ceuta by land and sea from Thursday in an unprecedented surge at one of the European Union's only land borders with Africa.(0550 GMT) on the Tarajal breakwater, one ​of the main points used by people trying to enter the tiny Spanish territory, the government said in a statement.

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