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Immigrants "robbed, dumped in Sahara desert"

Giles Tremlett

MADRID: More than 100 African migrants detained by Moroccan police as they tried to get into the Spanish enclave of Melilla have been rescued after being dumped in the middle of the Sahara desert, according to Spanish media reports.

The migrants, from sub-Saharan Africa, said they were robbed of their money by Moroccan police, bussed hundreds of kilometres into the empty desert and then abandoned. They were rescued by the Polisario Front which seeks independence for Western Sahara.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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