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| Migrants Storm Border from Morocco into Spain |
| 2013-07-10 |
| [An Nahar] Around 100 African migrants stormed a border fence from Morocco into Spanish territory on Tuesday, leaving five coppers injured, Spanish authorities said. Officials said about 40 of the migrants managed to cross the fence separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco on the Mediterranean coast, in the latest in a wave of such attempts. The migrants stormed a section of the six-meter (20-foot) fence near the airport in Melilla on Tuesday morning, Spanish government officials there said in a statement. "The immigrants were grouped in a grove of trees on the Moroccan side and carried out a massive coordinated assault which the Civil Guard managed to partially abort," the statement said. "In their efforts to defend the border fence, five civil guards were maimed, none of them seriously for the moment." |
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