A group of around 30 people from Morocco, which is in Africa, swam through a big storm to try to get to a part of Spain called Ceuta.
Most of the people were teenagers or adults. They made this dangerous journey during bad weather with lots of rain and strong wind.
They swam from a place called Benzu, which is between Spain and Morocco.
After they arrived in Ceuta, the Spanish Guardia Civil, which is like the police, and the Red Cross helped them. Some of them got hurt when they were swimming and hit rocks.
This isn’t the first time people from Morocco have tried to swim to the Spanish territory in Africa.
Recently, the Guardia Civil, which is like the police, has been searching for a 17-year-old boy named Yusef. His friend Abdulà said Yusef got lost in the sea near the Recinto area in Ceuta.
Last weekend, some young people, including women, were seen jumping into the water from the beaches in a town in Morocco called Fnideq, also known as Castillejos in Spanish. Fnideq is not far from Ceuta.
In late February, about 40 desperate migrants from Morocco, including six young people, managed to reach the border of Ceuta by sea, even though it was raining heavily.
Similar things happened in August last year when almost 100 people from Morocco tried to reach Ceuta in one day. It also happened in 2021.
The Guardia Civil thinks migrants choose to swim to Ceuta when the weather is bad because they believe there will be less security, and the strong waves will help them reach the shores. But this decision puts them in serious danger of getting very cold, hitting the coast hard, or drowning.
Ceuta is next to Morocco and sits between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It’s also one of the special territories of the European Union.
