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/ 3 October 2005

Hundreds of immigrants storm Spanish border fence

About 350 would-be illegal immigrants stormed part of the metal fence separating the Spanish north African enclave of Melilla from Morocco at dawn on Monday. Local authorities were unable on Monday to explain how the immigrants managed to break through or over the fence, whose height had been raised to six metres, in the latest in a series of assaults on the barrier.