Spain: Migrants make violent border crossing bid

Published February 24, 2014 1:29pm ET



MADRID (AP) — Hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants armed with sticks and stones stormed the six-meter (20-foot) high double barbed wire border fence on Monday in a bid to enter Spain’s northwest African enclave of Melilla from Morocco, with about 100 of them making it across, Spanish and Moroccan officials said.

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