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Perplexed Spanish authorities are now rushing to heighten the wall (Photo: EUobserver)

Spanish enclave Melilla stormed by immigrants

In two separate stormings, over a thousand Sub-Saharan immigrants stormed the wall that surrounds the Spanish enclave Mellilla in northern Africa on Tuesday (27 september).

Three hundred immigrants made it into European territory, and perplexed Spanish authorities are now rushing to heighten the wall.

It is the biggest and most dramatic event of this type ever to have occurred in the enclave, a tiny territory in the North of Morroco, the Spanish press reports.

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Perplexed Spanish authorities are now rushing to heighten the wall (Photo: EUobserver)

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