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This is the dramatic moment a policeman allegedly breaks his leg after trying to trip a migrant attempting to reach Spain.

The border officer had to be helped to a chair by colleagues after suffering a double fracture as he tried to take the migrant to the ground by kicking him with his left leg as he ran at him.

The officer ended up breaking his right leg as it buckled under him, as an estimated 180 stormed a Spanish check point.

He was allegedly left at the spot where he broke his leg, until shocked colleagues sat him down in a chair before an ambulance arrived.

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Astonishing footage showed another officer hitting others with his truncheon in a futile attempt to stop the army of desperate migrants storming the border between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.

More than 180 sub-Saharan Africans ended up reaching Spanish soil in the daring mass crossing in the early hours of yesterday morning.

They were later photographed rejoicing by raising their hands in joy as they ran through the streets.

They also kneeled with their arms outstretched to the sky as the exhilaration of making it to Europe after an arduous journey from countries including Senegal and Mali took over.

Four migrants were taken to hospital for treatment along with the policeman, who has not been named.

The dramatic border incident occurred at the Tarajal crossing at around 5am local time yesterday.

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An estimated 300 migrants stormed the border with around 187 men making it across, according to initial Red Cross figures.

The Spanish enclave and its sister enclave of Melilla further east on the Moroccan mainland are used to mass crossings of the perimeter fence separating them from Morocco- but not at the official border posts.

Two years ago a Moroccan teenager was stopped by police on the same Tarajal border crossing with an eight-year-old boy inside a suitcase in images which went round the word.

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An hour and a half later his dad was arrested trying to cross at the same spot.

Police have described the latest incident, which comes a fortnight after an officer was injured by a Moroccan armed with a knife shouting 'Allah is Great' after he managed to cross from Morocco to Melilla, as "very rare".

An investigation is now underway to determine why so many migrants managed to breach the Ceuta border, with the central government’s spokesman for the area attributing it in the immediate aftermath to a security "failure".

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Footage shows the officers reacting just seconds before the army of migrants storm a flimsy-looking glass door protecting the passport control area.

One of the officers looks on helpless as the migrants sprint by before two colleagues - one with the baton and the other who resorts to trying to trip up the men - get involved as the last of the migrants race across the border.

The immigrants who made it across the border will be held in a temporary migrant holding centre known as a CETI but are expected to be transferred to the Spanish mainland in the coming weeks and months while their futures are decided.