Two Moroccan women killed in border stampede

Two Moroccans were trampled to death and around 20 other people were injured today as a crowd pushed to cross into Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

The cause of the border stampede was not immediately known, but it occurred when about 200 people tried to climb steep stairs near a bridge used daily by thousands of Moroccans who buy merchandise in Ceuta and resell it in Morocco.