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Over 200 migrants managed to enter Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco

<span style="color: #222222;">The Spanish authorities said more than 200 migrants managed to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Three hundred migrants had tried to climb the border fence and 238 of them made it into the Spanish territory.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The migrants were transferred to accommodation where they will have to quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Melilla authorities.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In May, more than 10,000 people, including unaccompanied children, arrived in Spain's other enclave in northern Morocco, Ceuta, in an unprecedented wave of migration.  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">That incident had triggered a diplomatic row between the two countries with Madrid accusing Rabat of weaponising migration in a row over the contested territory of Western Sahara.</span><br />''  <br />

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