Thousands of migrants storm border fence in Spain's Melilla

Paramilitaries of the Moroccan Auxiliary Forces speak with a man as they stand guard by the border fence separating Morocco from Spain's North African Melilla enclave.MADRID - Around 2,000 migrants tried to storm the border separating Spain's Melilla enclave from Morocco on Friday, the first such attempted mass crossing into the territory since the two nations mended diplomatic ties in March.

Morocco deployed a"large" amount of forces to try to repel the assault on the border, who"cooperated actively" with Spain's security forces, the delegation said earlier in a separate statement. Morocco's Hassani Hospital in Nador near Melilla confirmed that"several" police officers and migrants were admitted for treatment.In March this year, Spain ended a year-long diplomatic crisis by backing Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara going back on its decades-long stance of neutrality.

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