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 OUJDA, Morocco (AP) - Morocco sent hundreds of African immigrants home on flights for a second day Tuesday in a bid to stop the continent's poor from using this North African kingdom as a stepping stone to Europe.
Illegal immigrants were rounded up in buses around the country before being deported. A member of a Spanish anti-racism group said some were taken to military camps in the Western Sahara territory to the south before being placed on flights.
Morocco has come under criticism for its handling of recent attempts by sub-Saharan Africans to rush barbed-wire fences at two Spanish enclaves in northern Morocco. Nearly a dozen Africans have died — some of gunshot wounds — as they attempted to get to the other side.
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