OREANDA-NEWS More than 48,000 illegal migrants have already returned from Ceuta to Morocco. This was reported by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, RTVE TV channel reports.

"More than 48,000 people have returned to Morocco (...) According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, departures amounted to about 150 people per minute," the TV channel reports.

Earlier it became known that hundreds of illegal migrants who entered Ceuta began to voluntarily return to Morocco.

On July 30, the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, located on the northern coast of Africa, found itself at the center of the largest migration crisis since 2021. Thousands of people from Morocco and other countries broke through the land border, circumnavigated the coastal barriers by swimming and went to the beaches of the city.