Migrant dies in police firing

Published January 2, 2009

RABAT, Jan 1 : An African migrant was killed on Thursday when Moroccan police fired warning shots to stop 80 illegal migrants trying to reach Spain’s North African outpost of Melilla, Moroccan state news agency MAP reported.

The migrants tried to force their way through Morocco’s Iyassenen checkpoint and rush the Melilla border in the early hours of the new year.

“Security forces fired warning shots to push back the assailants. One of the illegal Sub Saharan African migrants was wounded in this particularly violent assault and died as he was transported to hospital,” it said.—Reuters

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