According to the same source, 140 members of the police force sustained injuries of varying severity, including five seriously injured, during an intervention to abort this operation which has seen the use of very violent methods by the assailants.

Five of the illegal migrants who led this assault died during a stampede and some of them fell from the top of the fence, while 76 others were wounded, including 13 severely.

The injured among the police and the attackers were evacuated to the Al Hassani Hospital in Nador and the University Hospital of Oujda to receive the necessary care, said the same source.

Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse