A majority of EU countries called on Saturday for emergency talks on the sudden inflow of tens of thousands of migrants into Spain's enclave of Ceuta in North Africa. An open letter from the leaders of 22 of the EU's 27 countries demanded the bloc's interior ministers have a video meeting "as a matter of urgency" to agree a speedy coordinated response, and to "prevent further uncontrolled crossings.” Practically all migrants who crossed from Morocco to Ceuta have returned and the situation has returned to almost normal, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters on Saturday. "Almost all of them have already left Ceuta," the minister said when asked about the migrants who had crossed into the enclave. "The situation has been almost entirely reversed." The death toll in the border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67, the Spanish government said. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier. Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea. A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta's urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border.
