
Europe's migrant crisis continued today with over 100 scaling a 20ft barbed wire fence into a Spanish enclave and more than 500 arriving on boats at a beach in Greece overnight.

Police in Ceuta said 155 sub-Saharan Africans made their way into the Spanish territory after climbing fences that separate it from Morocco on Friday.

Meanwhile on the island of Lesbos 16 rubber dinghies packed with 547 migrants - more than 240 of them children - landed at the fishing village of Skala Sikamia overnight.

They arrived within the space of around an hour while another 32 people in different vessel were rescued at sea and transported to land.

Of these, nearly 200 were taken to an identification centre and the rest remained at the UN's Sikamia camp, which houses more than 10,000 people in a facility designed to hold 3,000.

A total of 547 people landed on the Greek island of Lesbos overnight, including 177 men, 124 women and 246 children

Migrants hang on 20ft fences as they make their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Friday - authorities said most were from Guinea in West Africa

A migrant clings to the top of a 20ft fence tangled in barbed wire this morning in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave bordered by Morocco

Police officers used a cherry picker to get the migrants down from the fence

A detained migrant's face is torn with anguish as he sits with others after entering Ceuta today

A further 65 were rescued in two separate incidents off the island of Kos and the northern mainland town of Alexandroupolis.

It was the largest arrival of its kind since 2016, when the EU-Turkey deal came into effect, medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said on Twitter.

The government in Cueta said the hundred migrants who entered today ran from the breakwater where a five mile fence meets the sea.

'They are all from sub-Saharan Africa, the majority from Guinea,' a spokesman for the central government's office in Ceuta told AFP.

He said the migrants took advantage of misty conditions this morning and that 12 police officers had been injured in the rush. Five of them were hospitalised.

Several migrants were treated for lacerations, he said, and many could be seen bleeding while they sat on the ground, detained by officers.

Officers detain a man after hauling him from the barbed wire - Spanish authorities said most were from Guinea in West Africa

A Greek police officer attends the beach after 547 people arrived last night, most of them from Syria and Afghanistan

Police officers wearing riot gear use a cherry picker to reach migrants at the top of a 20ft fence which surrounds the breakwater in Ceuta

Officers stand below the fence while a migrant clings to the top, tangled in barbed wire on Friday

Migrants are taken to a detention centre in Ceuta (left) while another desperately tries to evade a police officer on the other side of the fence (right)

Spanish media said some of them jumped over while the majority broke through a door in the fence.

This is the first time in a year that migrants have managed to storm the barbed wire fence that separates Ceuta from Morocco as a group, the spokesman said.

Spain's two North African enclaves, Melilla and Ceuta, have the European Union's only land borders with Africa.

Since the start of the year, 3,427 migrants have entered these two cities, 18.1 percent less than in 2018, according to the latest interior ministry figures. Of these, 671 arrived in Ceuta.

In July, over 200 people tried to cross into Melilla.

Those who make it across the end up in crowded migrant centres from which they are eventually repatriated or let go.

Authorities in Ceuta said around 100 sub-Saharan Africans made their way into the Spanish territory after climbing fences that separate it from Morocco

Men can be seen standing up on the high barbed wire fence after crossing in from Morocco

In Greece, Lesbos remains the main port of arrival and has since an increase of 44 percent compared to the same period last year (pictured: migrants this morning)

Migrants, who arrived on 16 boats, sit on the beach at Skala Sikamias, Lesbos Island, Greece

Ceuta is separated from the Spanish mainland by just 12.5miles across the Strait of Gibraltar and Spain has become a leading migrant entry route.

Last year over 57,000 unauthorised arrivals were made through Spain, after Italy essentially closed its borders to migrants leaving Libya.

Meanwhile in Greece, Lesbos remains the main port of arrival and has seen an increase of 44 percent compared to the same period last year.