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Spain: Migrant dies after group tries to cross Melilla fence

by Associated Press
| August 20, 2020 2:27 AM

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities said that an African man died and 11 other people sustained minor injuries Thursday when around 300 migrants attempted to jump over a series of fences that separate the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Moroccan territory.

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