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The man tried to swim into the Spanish city from Morocco this morning
In the early hours of the morning on Tuesday December 6, the Spanish Guardia Civil pulled from the sea in Ceuta the lifeless body of a migrant who had tried to swim around into Spanish territory from Morocco.
Sources from the Guardia Civil identified him as a 48-year-old man of Yemeni origin.
Wearing a wetsuit to protect him from the freezing waters, the man had tried to swim towards Ceuta along the Benzú border breakwater to enter the Spanish city, as many migrants try to do from Morocco.
A few hours after the man’s body was recovered, there was a new attempt by a group of three migrants to jump the Ceuta border fence, but they were picked up shortly afterwards by the Guardia Civil and transferred to the Temporary Immigrant Stay Centre.
Apparently, the immigrants took advantage of the adverse weather conditions to get around the fence and enter Ceuta.
Ceuta is one of two Spanish enclaves on the Moroccan coast, the other being Melilla, which was the site of this summer’s so-called ‘Melilla massacre’ in which at least 23 sub-Saharan migrants lost their lives trying to cross the border, one of whom was killed on Spanish soil.
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