Migrants Storm Spanish Beach

A boatload of 50 or so African migrants storm ashore on a Spanish beach as stunned tourists watch. The boat was made up of almost all military aged men as they all are and the one woman onboard was trampled as they left the boat. She was left in the sand by the migrants.  This year, African migrants have been making for Spain in much larger numbers as the route to Italy has been largely cut down.

This is the astonishing moment around 50 migrants land on a packed beach and sprint up the sand as stunned tourists look on. Footage taken by holidaymakers and posted on Twitter showed the Africans jumping off their rickety wooden boat as it reaches the shoreline as a father on the beach moves his children out of the way and two men interrupt a game of beach tennis. Other tourists strolling along the water's edge as the cramped vessel reaches dry land can be seen breaking into a run to join crowds milling around a woman migrant who was injured in the mass arrival and is laid on her back on the sand. The extraordinary scenes occurred at midday on Saturday at a beach in Zahora in the province of Cadiz, near to the headland of Cape Trafalgar close to where Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon's combined Spanish and French fleet.