THIS is the astonishing moment 50 African migrants land on a packed Spanish beach before asking stunned holidaymakers for food.

Incredible footage shows dozens of people jumping off a rickety wooden boat as it reaches the shoreline as a father on the beach moves his children out of the way and two men interrupt a game of beach tennis.

7 Migrants are seen arriving at the beach in Cadiz, Spain

Other tourists strolling along the water’s edge as the cramped vessel reaches dry land can be seen breaking into a run to join crowds milling around a woman migrant who was injured in the mass arrival and is laid on her back on the sand.

The extraordinary scenes occurred yesterday lunchtime at a beach in Zahora in the province of Cadiz, near to the headland of Cape Trafalgar.

It happened just days after dozens of migrants were filmed storming a beach in Tarifa further east, but at 1pm and on a beach which at the time was much busier with tourists and locals than the one in Tarifa.

Witnesses told how many of the migrants ended up asking beachgoers for food and water after distancing themselves from the boat they had arrived on, known as a patera in Spanish.

7 The extraordinary scenes occurred yesterday lunchtime at a beach in Zahora Credit: Reuters

7 Only one of the migrants, the woman filmed lying on the sand, needed medical attention Credit: Reuters

7 Holidaymakers look on shocked as migrants sprint across the sand

7 This is the second time in a few days that migrants have stormed a Spanish beach, after dozens arrived in Tarifa on Friday

Lorenzo Amor, president of Spain’s National Federation of Self-Employed Workers who was on the beach at the time, tweeted: “Arrival of a new patera on the coast of Cadiz.

“Right now at Zahora beach next to the Trafalgar lighthouse.

“The people inside the boat asking sunbathers who are on the beach for food.”

Only one of the migrants, the woman filmed lying on the sand, needed medical attention. She is said to have hurt her arm although not seriously.

7 Holidaymakers look at a loss as they watch the migrants race ashore

The whereabouts of the others seen racing away from the boat was not immediately clear this morning.

The incident came on a day in which coastguards said they had rescued 284 people in more than a dozen boats in the Straits of Gibraltar, the point where the distance between Spain and Gibraltar narrows to just over nine miles.

Officials in Andalucia said a sports hall in Los Barrios near to the southern port of Algeciras - with space for 800 migrants - had been set aside.

Algeciras town hall said it was making water available to them and local supermarkets were providing milk, juice and biscuits.

7 Within a minute, dozens of migrants have crossed the other side of the beach

The inter-governmental organisation International Organisation for Migration said the number of migrants and refugees reaching Spain through the increasingly-popular western Mediterranean route could soon exceed last year’s figure for the whole of last year.

Spain has overtaken Italy as the preferred destination for migrant arrivals in Europe this year after Italy’s new hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini introduced a blanket ban on migrant boats entering the country’s ports.

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The number of migrants and refugees using the western Mediterranean route to reach Spain stands at 20,992 between January 1 and July 25 according to the IOM, close to the 22,108 people who used it during the whole of last year.

Jose Ignacio Landaluce, mayor of Algeciras where many of the new arrivals come ashore, said last week his city risked becoming the new Lampedusa, the Italian island which has been overrun with migrants.

Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlaska has tried to play down fears of collapse by insisting during a visit to the area yesterday that the situation was “exceptional” but under control and calling on a “European solution” for a European problem.

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