Joint action between Moroccan Security Forces and the Civil Guard on Thursday night stopped more than 500 migrants who attempted to storm the Melilla border fence.
The Government Delegation in Melilla said pressure on the border has been heightened for two days and accumulated at 4:50 am on Thursday night when over 500 sub-Saharan Africans carried out a “violently attempted massive entry” to Melilla.
Joint Spanish-Moroccan action “neutralized” their efforts, reported Europa Press.
On Wednesday, 80 people of Maghrebian origin attempted to scale up into Melilla. 14 succeeded.
Migratory pressure driven by flows from Morocco has picked up pace in recent days, with Coastguards of the Royal Navy, operating in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, rescuing on 18-21 Dec. 2021, to 352 migrants, mostly Sub-Saharans, including women and children, who were aboard makeshift boats, a military source told MAP.
The number of people who died on the different maritime migration routes to Spain has reached a total of 1,255 this year, the highest number recorded by the UN’s International Organization for Migration.
A total of 99 children and 248 women are among those who died or disappeared as they tried to reach Spain on fragile wooden boats in 2021.
According to the latest tally of December 3 by the IOM’s Missing Migrants program, reported by EFE, a total of 937 migrants passed away on route to the Canary Islands alone.
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