Morocco stopped a fresh attempt to cross into Ceuta

Moroccan security forces on Saturday dispersed hundreds of people who had been hiding in hill country outside Fnideq, south-west of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Moroccan media report that 294 people were arrested, 46 of them Moroccan and the rest from countries south of the Sahara. The operation answered a call on social media for a fresh mass crossing, after tens of thousands of people crossed on foot and by swimming on 30 and 31 July, in an episode in which humanitarian organisations count at least 141 dead.

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