Spain says around 700 migrants have tried to storm the border crossing between Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta and Morocco, leaving one guard with a broken leg.
The Interior Ministry’s office in Ceuta said the migrants also tried to scale the 20-foot barbed-wire fences around Ceuta after the early Thursday crossing attempt at the Tarajal post failed, but were eventually repelled by Moroccan and Spanish police.
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Spain and Morocco on Wednesday agreed to close the Tarajal post to freight traffic for a week because of recent migrant crossing attempts. Pedestrian and passenger vehicles were still allowed.
Every year, thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants living illegally in Morocco try to scale the border fences surrounding Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s other North African enclave, in a bid to enter Europe.
Tarajal border checkpoint on Ceuta: Large group of migrants storm into the Spanish exclave, border police helpless, one got fracture fibula. pic.twitter.com/4HQKPbexPY
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The Associated Press contributed to this article.