Ceuta Begins Burials for Migrants Who Died Attempting to Cross Into the Spanish Territory
Authorities said 95% of the dead remain unidentified as Ceuta plans to bury about 70 migrants in the coming days.
- At a Muslim cemetery in Ceuta, 18 migrants were laid to rest on Friday, among more than 90 who died during Spain's deadliest border crisis three weeks ago.
- Fueled by misinformation and poverty, more than 72,000 people poured into Ceuta, a Spanish territory neighboring Morocco, with many drowning or killed in a stampede near a border checkpoint.
- A spokesperson for Ceuta's city government said last week Morocco had not accepted repatriation paperwork, so authorities marked graves with numbered stones for potential future family identification.
- The Moroccan Association for Human Rights called the burials a "new human tragedy," adding to the "disaster of displacement and missing persons," and demanded the process be halted.
- Under Islamic custom, bodies were placed facing Mecca while funeral workers read prayers praising God; more migrants are expected to be buried soon as Morocco did not respond to repatriation inquiries.
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Morocco rejects that the bodies of those identified return to the country with their families, according to Health Councillor Nabila Benzina
First migrants buried in Spain's Ceuta after deadly border stampedeCeuta is burying about 70 migrants who died in a mass border crossing. Only six have been identified.
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Ceuta begins burials for migrants who died attempting to cross into the Spanish territory
Eighteen migrants have been laid to rest in Ceuta’s Muslim cemetery following Spain’s deadliest border crisis three weeks ago.
On Friday, Sidi Embarek’s camp was home to the first funerals of migrants who died in transit from Morocco on July 30The last morning of the Trampoline camp: “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but anything but return to Morocco” In the Muslim cemetery of Ceuta, located on the steep hillside of the slum of Sidi Embarek, a large number of tombs are named after them. And although some are local, many of them, hundreds, thousands even, are occupi…
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