The 209 people have since been taken to a migrant detention centre

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The migrants are breached the gates leading into Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the border of Northern Morocco.

One police officer was injured in the incident after being “attacked by an immigrant with one of the hooks they use to clamber up the fence” – while four migrants received hospital treatment for minor injuries.

It is reportedly common for migrants looking to scale the two 20ft high fences bordering the city to use hooks as well as shoes studded with nails to gain purchase as they clamber over the border.

The 209 migrants who managed to make it across the barrier have since been taken to a migrant detention centre.

The Melilla fence guards one of the EU’s two land borders between the EU and Africa – with the other being the Spanish enclave of Cueta, which also borders Morocco.

It was doubled in height in 2005 after repeated attempts to gain entry to the Spanish autonomous city, which is the subject of a territorial dispute with Morocco.