Risking Injury and Arrest, African Migrants Storm a Gate to Europe<br />Early Friday morning, as many as 600 African migrants stormed a gate in the five-mile-long barrier<br />that separates Morocco from the seaside city of Ceuta on the tip of Morocco — some of them cutting themselves on the fence’s barbed wire or fracturing bones.<br />17, 2017<br />For thousands of desperate sub-Saharan Africans, it is a foreboding<br />but tantalizingly close passage to a better life: A 20-foot-high fence guarding the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, one of only two land borders between Europe and Africa.<br />The Associated Press reported that around 6 a.m., surveillance cameras near the border had captured 600 people making their way to the fence, some of them gripping tools<br />and clubs to breach the gate in a bid to reach the Spanish territory.<br />said that two migrants and three civil guards had been injured<br />and hospitalized after a clash along a part of the fence, while at least 10 members of the Moroccan armed forces had also been hurt.
