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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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At the moment only 9 bodies have been identified: the others are being buried with simple numbers on the tombstones
·Italy
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·Madrid, Spain
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(Berlin=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = Funeral procedures have begun for migrants who died while crossing the border between Morocco in North Africa and the Spanish territory of Ceuta, Euronews reported...
·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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