Some 400 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa entered Spain Thursday after storming a double barrier between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Ceuta, with some attacking security forces with quicklime, police said.
The scramble over the barrier is the biggest in Ceuta since February 2017, when more than 850 migrants entered the overseas territory.
According to the International Organization for Migration, this latest break-in comes as Spain becomes the number one destination for migrants crossing the Mediterranean by boat, surpassing Italy with 19,856 migrant arrivals so far this year.
A spokesman for the Guardia Civil police force in Ceuta told AFP the migrants managed to climb over the double barrier, which is covered in small blades, early on Thursday morning.
