Spain's Red Cross is detailing the injuries of 12 people it transferred to receive medical treatment at Ceuta's University Hospital after they tried to swim from Morocco to Spain and then scale a border fence.
Two people were recovering from near-drowning, another had an open leg fracture, and most of the rest had deep cuts, some that required stitches.
The rescue service said it had distributed clothes and shoes to 185 migrants who had arrived in Spain either by scaling the border fence or swimming to try and get around all or part of it.
Moroccan and Spanish news agencies say over 200 migrants tried swim to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta and although 180 made it, two drowned, 12 were injured and others were intercepted were before reaching Spanish soil.
The Moroccan state news service MAP says several Moroccan officers were injured by sticks and stones from the migrants and police have opened an investigation.
Spanish television broadcaster TVE showed images of Red Cross ambulances attending to and feeding dozens of migrants. The Africans were covered in red towels, next to a 9-meter (30-feet) high-barbed wire fence that juts out into the Mediterranean Sea at Ceuta's western border with Morocco.
The International Organization for Migration says more than 1 million people have entered Europe this year, driven out of their homelands by war, poverty or persecution.
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