TE24 International Desk:
Eighteen Africans have been killed trying to cross into Spain, and Moroccan experts on Friday called people “moving” across the Moroccan border fence with Spain’s North African region of Melilla, and many migrants and police were injured.
A total of 133 travelers crossed the border between the Moroccan cities of Nador and Melilla on Friday, the main such junction since Spain and Morocco restored compromised relations last month. A representative of the Spanish government office in Melilla said about 2,000 people tried to cross, but many were stopped by Spanish Civil Guard police and Moroccan forces on both sides of the border fence.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the accident happened when people tried to climb the iron wall. It said five migrants were killed and 76 wounded and 140 Moroccan security officials were injured.
Thirteen of the affected migrants later moved to the clinic, bringing the death toll to 18, Morocco’s true news agency MAP said. According to, which has been mentioned by experts in the vicinity. The Moroccan Human Rights Association gave details of the 27 deaths, but the number could be confirmed soon.
According to Spanish authorities, 49 civil guards supported minor injuries. Four police vehicles were damaged by stones thrown by certain transgender people.
The people who dominated the crossing went to a nearby traveling community, where experts were assessing their condition.
For some time, people fleeing deprivation and barbarism made great efforts to reach Melilla and other Spanish territories on the coast of North Africa, Ceuta, as the springboard of mainland Europe.
Spain regularly relies on Morocco to get passengers far away from the line.
Two days after the start of March, according to Spanish experts, more than 3,500 people tried to cross the six-meter (20-foot) barrier that surrounded Melilla, and about 1,000 Spanish experts said it was over.
Friday’s cuts have been a major effort since relations between Spain and Morocco began to work in March after the previous Spanish settlement, added by Morocco in 1976, settled an extended question over Western Sahara.
Morocco relaxed its control around Ceuta last year, allowing a large number of travelers to cross into Spain. The move was seen as a counter to Spain’s choice to allow the head of Western Sahara, who supports the development of independence for the treatment of COVID-19, to a Spanish emergency clinic in Spain.
Tensions between the two countries have recently begun after Spain backed Morocco’s move to recognize more independence in the Western Sahara, where activists are seeking full autonomy.
