The death toll from Thursday's mass stampede into Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa, from Morocco reached at least 72 on Sunday, after five more bodies were found along Ceuta's coast, officials said.
More than 50,000 people have entered Ceuta by land and sea in an unprecedented wave that began on Thursday at one of the European Union's only two land borders with Africa, causing concern across the bloc.
More than 48,000 have returned to Morocco within 48 hours and others over the weekend, Spanish authorities have said.
The Spanish government representative in Ceuta, Miguel Angel Perez, told reporters on Sunday that, in addition to the 72 fatalities, more than 1,000 people had been treated by health services since Thursday. The situation in the city had improved significantly, he said, but there was still work to be done to restore normality.
Some migrants drowned and others were crushed while trying to climb over a breakwater and the border fence. Many were driven to migrate by economic hardship and encouraged by rumors on social media.
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