MADRID (Reuters) - Hundreds of people forced their way though razor-wire barriers into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla on Wednesday, highlighting increasing pressure on a rare land-based route into Europe for illegal migrants.
More than 1,000 stormed fences into the enclave at around 0400 GMT and about 400 had managed to breach the border, the Spanish city's mayor Juan Jose Imbroda said in a radio interview.
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