To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Try again Cover image: © France 24 06:47Morocco was working with Spain to check the toll figures and to identify bodies found on Spanish territory. The ministry blamed the sudden surge on the "malicious exploitation" of social media and the "spread of misleading information". Another 1,135 people had tried to illegally enter the Spanish territory of Melilla, further east, but had been immediately returned to Moroccan territory, the ministry added. Spain says more than 60,000 managed to enter Ceuta in recent days although most have now returned to Morocco.