Oujda, Morocco, Oct 11, SPA -- Morocco on Tuesday deported anothergroup of African immigrants who had failed in their bid toreach Europe, sending a plane filled with 140 Senegaleseback home on the third such flight in two days. More planes were expected to take off later Tuesday, someloaded with illegal immigrants from Mali. Some 600 Senegalese and another 606 Malians were beingtemporarily housed in this border town with Algeria aheadof deportation. The immigrants, many of whom initiallyslipped across the border from neighboring Algeria, havebeen using Morocco as a gateway to Europe, making their waynorth in a bid to reach Spanish enclaves in the north. The Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737 filled with Senegalese tookoff at about 0915GMT.--SPA1400 Local Time 1100 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/295595
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