Spain: ‘Migrants’ flee plane after emergency Barcelona landing

(BBC) A group of 28 people have escaped from a plane after it made an emergency landing in Barcelona’s El Prat airport in Spain, officials say.

The emergency was caused by a pregnant woman on board the Morocco-Turkey flight faking labour, they added.

Police have since caught half of the escapees, including the woman, who are assumed to be trying to enter Spain illegally.

It follows a similar incident in November last year in Majorca.

The group are said to have jumped out of the plane on Wednesday’s Pegasus Airlines Casablanca-Istanbul flight as soon as the doors opened on landing.

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