Spain asked to explain deaths at Moroccan border crossing

Riot police and refugees at the border separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco in June. Photograph: Javier Bernardo/AP

The Spanish government is facing growing calls to explain how at least 23 people died during a mass storming of the border fence between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla almost five months ago.

MPs who visited the border on a fact-finding trip have appeared to corroborate reports – first aired in a BBC Africa Eye investigation broadcast last week – that dead bodies were dragged out of a Spanish-controlled area by Moroccan police.