2022 Melilla incident
The gates of the buffer zone the day after the incident | |
| Date | 24 June 2022 |
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| Location | Barrio Chino border crossing between Morocco and Spain |
| Deaths | 23 migrants |
| Non-fatal injuries |
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| Missing | 70 migrants |
On 24 June 2022, 23 migrants and asylum seekers were killed after a crowd crush at the Melilla border fence during a conflict with Moroccan and Spanish security forces. Conflict broke out as around 2,000 migrants and asylum seekers gathered in the early hours of the day to cross the border with Spain.