RABAT, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Moroccan police arrested 50 African migrants who stormed a gap in the fence surrounding Spain's wealthy enclave of Melilla early on Saturday, Moroccan state news agency MAP reported.

The migrants tried to push their way through the hole in the six-metre, razor-wire fences opened up by recent storm flooding, MAP said, citing a security source.

Two security officers were injured trying to push back the migrants who included Cameroonians, Ivorians and others from Mali, Guinea and Sudan, the agency said.

It was the latest of several recent attempts to breach the heavily-guarded European outpost since the bad weather began.

Seven migrants tried to force their way through on Friday. Around 30 others managed to reach Melilla on Oct. 27 by overwhelming police guarding a damaged storm drain.

European governments have invested heavily in tighter border security, leaving thousands of African migrants stranded and destitute in Morocco, a country grappling with poverty and the threat of social unrest.

Some migrants have spent years camping in the forests near Melilla in the hope of reaching Europe and a better life. Hundreds of them stormed the fences guarding Melilla and its sister enclave Ceuta in 2005, when 11 were killed. (Reporting by Tom Pfeiffer)

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