A car containing 17 people and two children has tried to break through a border post in Spain’s North African territory of Melilla. The would-be migrants were stopped by Moroccan authorities.<br /><br />The latest attempt to illegally enter the enclave happened the same day Spain’s Interior minister Jorge Fernández Díaz visited the territory. <br /><br />It follows last month’s storming of Melilla’s security fence when more than 200 North African immigrants managed to breach the territory’s security perimeter. <br /><br />During the minister’s visit sub-Saharan migrants seeking asylum in Europe called on Madrid to allow them to go to mainland Spain. <br /><br />Inspecting border security and the territory’s reception centre, Fernández Díaz described the situation in Melilla and Spain’s other North African enclave of Ceuta as a ‘State of Emergency’<br /><br />In February, 15 migrants drowned off the coast of Ceuta.
