France, Aug. 3 -- Ireland, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, said it had convened a meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council.

Jim O'Callaghan, Ireland's Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Minister will chair the conference.

On Sunday, the death toll from Thursday's mass rush into Ceuta from Morocco ‌reached at least 72 after five more bodies were found along Ceuta's coast, officials said.

More than 50,000 people crossed into Ceuta by land and sea in a surge that began on Thursday at one of the EU's only two land ​borders with Africa, prompting alarm across the bloc.

More than 48,000 returned to Morocco within 48 hours .

Increasing border checks across Europe test Schengen free movement

Miguel Ange...