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Morocco: 18 migrants die in attempt to enter Spain’s Melilla - Al Jazeera English

Morocco: 18 migrants die in attempt to enter Spain’s Melilla - Al Jazeera English

Morocco: 18 migrants die in attempt to enter Spain’s Melilla - Al Jazeera English
Jun 25, 2022 46 secs

Deaths occurred during attempted mass crossing into Spanish North African enclave by some 2,000 migrants, officials say.

Moroccan authorities said that 18 migrants were killed and dozens of migrants and police officers were injured in a “stampede” of people trying to cross into the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla.

A spokesperson for the Spanish government’s office in Melilla said about 2,000 people attempted to enter the North African city on Friday morning and during a violent two-hour skirmish about 130 successfully breached the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave.

“A large group of sub-Saharans [Africans] … broke through the access gate of the Barrio Chino border checkpoint and entered Melilla by jumping over the roof of the checkpoint,” the Spanish government’s delegation in the area said in an earlier statement.

Melilla and Ceuta, Spain’s other tiny North African enclave, have the European Union’s only land borders with Africa, making them a magnet for migrants.

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