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Migrant crisis: 2 dead, 12 injured trying to enter Spain

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At least two people drowned and 12 others were injured while trying to get to a small patch of Spanish territory in North Africa by swimming from Morocco and scaling a barbed-wire fence that juts into the Mediterranean Sea.

According to Spanish news agency, the dead and hurt were among more than 200 people trying to reach the enclave of Ceuta, which borders Morocco and is across the Strait of Gibraltar from mainland Spain.

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Migration monitors reveals that more than a million people hoping to escape war and poverty have made their way into Europe this year and attention has been focused on two more common routes — across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece or across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.

Thousands of African migrants also try to enter the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla each year hoping to get to Europe. Fifteen drowned trying to reach Ceuta last year; the two deaths on Friday are the first there this year.

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