APTOPIX Spain Ceuta
A 12-year-old unaccompanied minor who crossed into Spain is escorted by a Spanish soldier to the Spain-Morocco border from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. The forced deportation of the unaccompanied minor was stopped by a high-ranking official a few meters before the child reached the border after residents and journalists said the migrant was a minor.
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The girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother drowned in the Mediterranean. Their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of people surged through the breakwater to leave Morocco behind. The tragic story of a 17-year-old from Tangier is representative of the plight of many of the more than 800 minors who four days after the collective push by migrants into Ceuta face an uncertain future. Some 860 minors remain in Ceuta while most of the 60,000 people who came across last week have gone back.
CEUTA, Spain (AP) — The dead have been recovered from the waters off Ceuta. Most of the migr…
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