India, Aug. 1 -- Some 60,000 migrants have entered Spain's Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours, Ceuta's president says. That is equivalent to 70 per cent of the city's regular population.

At least 34 migrants have died in the process. "The situation that Ceuta is going through is absolutely unsustainable," said Juan Jesus Vivas on Friday.

The border crisis boiled over Thursday and continued on Friday with security forces clashing with migrants on the Moroccan side of the border.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned the breach of the border on Friday, speaking in Ceuta, describing the events as "a violation of Spain's territorial integrity." The Spanish leader cast blame on human smugglers, saying they "deceive so many you...