Spain’s Sánchez blames trafficking gangs as estimated 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta with at least 34 dead – Europe live

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has traveled to Ceuta, joined by interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, as the Spanish enclave faces an estimated sixty thousand migrant arrivals with at least thirty-four deaths reported. He visited the Tarajal border crossing and is now meeting with local authorities, border, and police officials. According to The Guardian, Sánchez blamed trafficking gangs for misleading migrants about a recent court ruling on those who arrive in Spain by sea.

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