Spain: migrants storm enclave border fence

Published February 28, 2014 2:46pm ET



MADRID (AP) — More than 200 sub-Saharan African migrants brandishing bottles, sticks and stones stormed into Spain’s northwest African enclave of Melilla from Morocco on Friday.

In a statement from the Interior Ministry’s Melilla office, the storming was the second in a week and led to the injury of one police officer, who was apparently struck by a migrant on the head with a stick in the pre-dawn melee.

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