Spain installs floating sea barrier in Ceuta following border rush, police union says not enough

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Spain said migrant crossings into its North African enclave of Ceuta had stopped overnight, as police began installing a 500-metre floating barrier on Saturday off its border with Morocco following a mass rush that killed at least 67 people. However, a spokesperson for the Unified Association of Civil Guards of Ceuta, Rachid Sbihi, said the measure was "not enough and too late." 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. More than 48,000 of them returned to Morocco within 48 hours without major incident, Spain said. The pneumatic barrier, alongside a line of anchored naval buoys, is designed to stand 30 to 70 centimetres (12 to 28 inches) above water and extend as much as one metre below the surface, it added, while a channel between the barriers will allow civil guard vessels to patrol the area. For more info, please go to http

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