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In Photos | Ceuta Migrant Crisis Deepens As Makeshift Beach Camp Is Cleared

For weeks, migrants in Spain’s territory of Ceuta had been staying on a beach outside the city center, sleeping on cardboard, taking shelter in makeshift reed huts, and keeping watch over their few belongings stored in worn plastic bags, as reported by AP.

Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day, in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day, in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day, in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day, as Spanish police escort them in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day, as Spanish police escort them in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day, as Spanish police escort them in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day, as Spanish police escort them in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day ,in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Migrants who crossed from Morocco into Spain return to a beach after being expelled from the area the previous day ,in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Funeral workers gather the bodies of migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Funeral workers gather the bodies of migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Funeral workers bury migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Funeral workers bury migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Funeral workers bury migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Funeral workers bury migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
A man, accompanied by funeral workers, prays over bodies of migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
A man, accompanied by funeral workers, prays over bodies of migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
Funeral workers bury migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
Funeral workers bury migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo: AP/Antonio Sempere
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