2022 Melilla incident

Name: 2022 Melilla incident
Start: 2022

2022 CE.

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On 24 June 2022, 23 migrants and asylum seekers were killed after a crowd crush at the Melilla border fence during a conflict with Moroccan and Spanish security forces. The conflict broke out as around 2,000 migrants and asylum seekers gathered in the early hours of the day to cross the border into Spain.

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