{"id":3237,"date":"2014-12-31T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T12:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2014-12-31T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T12:29:47","slug":"100-migrants-scale-fence-to-enter-spains-melilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/100-migrants-scale-fence-to-enter-spains-melilla\/","title":{"rendered":"100 migrants scale fence to enter Spain\u2019s Melilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Migrants\"<\/a>More than 100 migrants on Tuesday managed to scale the six-meter fence surrounding the Spanish exclave of Melilla to enter the territory while around 40 remained perched on the barrier, officials said.
\nSome 200 people tried to storm into the territory that lies in northern Morocco \u2014 which together with the nearby exclave of Ceuta have Europe\u2019s only land borders with Africa \u2014 in the early morning hours, Melilla police said in a statement.
\n\u201cIn total, 102 managed to enter Melilla\u201d and 40 remained on top of the fence under the watchful eyes of Spanish border guards, it said.
\nThe flow of migrants hoping to reach Europe via Ceuta and Melilla has swelled this year by the conflicts in Syria and Iraq as well as unrest in parts of north Africa, officials say.
\nThe number of undocumented migrants entering Melilla had surged to more than 4,600 in early December, compared with 3,000 for the whole of 2013, Spain\u2019s interior minister said on December 10.
\nRights groups and the UN refugee agency have accused Spanish forces of violence toward migrants climbing the border fences into Ceuta and Melilla over recent months.<\/p>\n

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