
A woman has been arrested after she was caught trying to smuggle a teenager over the border into Europe in a suitcase.
The Moroccan was stopped at the border with Spain on December 30 after the civil guard became suspicious about her package.
They found the 19-year-old from Gabon curled up inside the suitcase in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in northern Africa.
Yesterday 1,100 migrants tried to cross into the enclave from Morocco.
A regional government spokesman said 50 Moroccan and five Spanish officers were injured when hundreds of migrants tried to enter Spanish territory.
The spokesman said two migrants managed to reach Spanish soil. Both were injured scaling the 20ft border fence and were taken to hospital by Spanish police.
Another 100 migrants climbed the fence, but Spanish agents sent them straight back to Morocco.
Last month, more than 400 migrants breached the fence at Ceuta.
Hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants living illegally in Morocco try to enter Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s other North African enclave, each year in hope of getting to Europe.
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