At least 88 people died during the recent mass influx of migrants into Spain`s Ceuta enclave from Morocco, Spanish officials said on Monday, though Moroccan officials later presented a lower estimate, wrotes Euronews.

Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain`s north African territory, most by swimming, have returned to Morocco since the territory’s largest mass migrant crossing.

"The latest figure that we have is 72", the government`s delegate to Ceuta, Miguel Angel Perez Triano, told reporters, when asked about the number of fatalities. The previous toll was 67 deaths.

Later on Sunday, Morocco`s interior ministry issued its own toll, saying 11 people had died trying to reach Ceuta. They said 10 people had drowned while one fell from a rocky area.

Spanish police and troops patrolled the streets of Ceuta on Sunday as the enclave largely returned to normal after the sudden mass influx between Wednesday and Friday. Only small groups of migrants were still walking around after most who crossed the small border barrier returned voluntarily to Morocco within 48 hours.

On Saturday, reporters with the AFP news agency saw migrant minors milling around in a disused industrial park in Ceuta, while others dozed on the pavements outside.