{Fifty Moroccan and five Spanish border guards were injured when 1,100 African migrants attempted to storm a border fence.}<\/p>\n
The migrants were attempting to reach Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.
\nOnly two were successful, but both were injured scaling the six-metre (20 ft) fence and needed hospital treatment. One guard lost an eye, officials said.<\/p>\n
The attempt comes after more than 400 migrants succeeded in breaching Ceuta’s fence in December.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants living illegally in Morocco try to enter Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s other North African enclave, each year in hope of getting to Europe.<\/p>\n
The enclaves are Europe’s only land borders in Africa.<\/p>\n
But most migrants are intercepted and returned to Morocco, while those who make it over the fences are eventually repatriated or released.<\/p>\n
This latest attempt – described as “extremely violent and organised” by the Spanish government’s representative office in Ceuta – took place at 04:00 (03:00 GMT) on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n
Dozens made it to the top of the fence, but Spanish agents sent them directly back to Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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