37 African migrants to Spain killed, and 100 injured at the Morroccan Border

Over 37 migrants were killed and 150 more were injured as they journeyed to cross the Moroccan border into Melilla on Friday. The Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, working with Moroccan police acting as European Union’s border guard, have carried out this barbaric massacre at the borders of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa.

According to UNHCR, many came from Chad, Niger, Sudan and South Sudan, and would be considered potential asylum seekers according to international law.

The precise cause of the deaths remains unclear. Some migrants may have died from suffocation or crushing because of a stampede provoked by Moroccan police charges. Other deaths may have occured when some fell from the top of the fence: at the place on the border where the massacre took place, the border fence rises to between 6 and 10 meters in height. Others may have been directly killed by police who hit them with stones and batons.

Footage released by Al Jazeera showed dozens of people lying by the border fence, some bleeding and many apparently lifeless as Moroccan security forces stood over them. In one clip, a Moroccan security officer appeared to strike a person lying on the ground with a baton.

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