(AFP) More than 230 migrants crossed the Moroccan border into Spain’s Melilla enclave before dawn on Thursday, in one of the largest influxes into this tiny North African territory in recent years.
The incident occurred two months after an unprecedented 10,000 people surged into Spain’s other enclave of Ceuta, exacerbating a diplomatic crisis between Madrid and Rabat.
In a statement, the Spanish government delegation in Melilla said “a huge influx” of more than 300 migrants had tried to cross the frontier at 6:50 am with 238 of them successfully scaling the fence, all of them men.
It said they used “hooks” to scale the frontier which they managed to do despite the fact the border fence was equipped with “anti-intrusion” measures, without specifying what they were.
