Dozens of illegal migrants have broken into the 6m fence that surrounds the Spanish territory of Melilla in North Africa, and have entered the country.

More than 100 illegal migrants broke through from the Moroccan territory and have now entered Spain and the European Union.

Spanish police say six Spanish civil guard officers were hurt in clashes between the migrants and the police. One migrant broke his leg when he fell from the fence.

The area is notorious of illegal migrants’ route to Spain and other European countries over that years but the Spanish government has blamed the unrest in northern Africa as the cause for the increase numbers of people trying to reach the EU by crossing the fence.

Melilla is home to about 80,000 people and has one of the European Union’s two land borders with Africa. The other is Ceuta, another Spanish territory north of Morocco.

The Italian Interior Minister, Angelino Alfano said last month that the flows of illegal migrants from Africa and the Mediterranean regions have increased severely this summer with almost 9,000 immigrants reaching Italy by boat between July 1 and August 10 this year.

In the past 12 months, more than 24,000 illegal migrants have come compared with more than 17,000 in the same period last year.

The governor of Melilla, Abdelmalik el-Barkani, said in May that police in the territory were struggling to cope with the flow of migrants.

He said a crackdown on migration to the Spanish Canary Islands in the Atlantic was driving greater numbers of migrants to Melilla.

Thousands of illegal migrants embark on dangerous missions with the prospect of finding work in the European Union countries but some do encounter accidents that do claim a lot of lives.

Issaka Adams / NationalTurk Africa News

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