Fast NewsSome 2,000 refugees and migrants have arrived at Spain's North African enclave Melilla to cross the border and over 500 managed to enter a border control area after cutting a fence with shears. Many migrants and refugees are detained by police officers on Spanish soil after crossing the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco in Melilla, Spain. (AP)The death toll following a mass attempt by a huge crowd of African refugees and migrants to cross from Morocco into Spain's Melilla enclave climbed to 18, according to a new Moroccan update. Morocco had deployed a "large" number of forces to try to repel the assault on the border, who "cooperated actively" with Spain's security forces, it said earlier in a statement. A month later, some 10,000 refugees and migrants surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave as border guards looked the other way, in what was widely seen as a punitive gesture by Rabat.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 25, 2022 10:47 UTC