Conflicts erupted today between Moroccan border guards and peddlers in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, resulting in about 20 Spanish border guards being injured.

As reported by the Spanish public radio RNE, the incidents erupted when about 2,000 Moroccan merchants and peddlers tried to cross the borders and enter the autonomous Spanish enclave of Ceuta after passing though without being checked in the controlled checkpoints of the Moroccan authorities.

The Spanish border guards repulsed the peddlers towards the Moroccan territory and closed the borders.

Moroccan sellers often enter Ceuta to sell their products and then return to Morocco. Several times, however, there are queues of them and occasionally tensions have been recorded between them and the Spanish border guards.