Around 300 migrants have stormed fences separating Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco – with 116 of them making it onto European soil. Seven policemen were burned by acid and quicklime, a skin irritant, allegedly thrown by some of the migrants as they over-ran border defences, Spanish police said. The migrants launched their assault yesterday morning, as many Moroccan police were at a prayer ceremony marking the start of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha. The assault came a month after just over 600 migrants got past the high, barbed-wire fences in the year's biggest assault. More than 3,800 migrants have crossed the border into Ceuta and Melilla so far this year, according to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 23, 2018 07:07 UTC