Spain said Wednesday that a woman who just returned from Saudi Arabia has been infected by the MERS coronavirus in the country's first case of the deadly disease.

The patient, who was born in Morocco but lives in Spain, is receiving treatment at a Madrid hospital and is in a "stable" condition, the health ministry said in a statement.

A would-be migrant died Tuesday when he fell while trying with 150 others to scale the border fence separating Morocco from Spain's north African territory of Melilla, Moroccan officials said.

The incident, in which another four people were injured, comes a day after 80-100 migrants succeeded in getting across by charging the seven-meter (23-foot) high fence at a point where it had not yet been reinforced.

Scores of migrants entered Spain's north African territory of Melilla Tuesday after storming a border fence, which authorities are busy topping with barbed wire to discourage such assaults, a local official said.

"Between 80 and 100" migrants managed to enter Melilla after charging the seven-meter (23-foot) high fence at dawn at a point where it had not yet been reinforced, the local government spokesman said.

Spain has installed barbed wire on the triple border fence that separates its north African territory of Melilla from Morocco, a key entry point into Europe for illegal migrants.

Barbed wire started being placed on the top of several sections of the seven-meter (23-foot) high fence last week to "reinforce security a bit", a spokesman for government of Melilla said Monday.

Spain's 75-year-old King Juan Carlos will undergo hip surgery later this month, the royal place said Monday, the latest of a string of operations that have raised questions over his reign.

Doctors gave him a temporary hip joint in a two-and-a-half-hour operation on September 24 because of an infection in tissue around a previous prosthetic joint that had been fitted in November 2012, which was making it difficult for him to walk.

Spy agencies in Germany, France, Spain and Sweden are carrying out mass surveillance of online and phone traffic in collaboration with Britain, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the Guardian newspaper reported Saturday.

Britain's GCHQ electronic eavesdropping center -- which has a close relationship with the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) -- has taken a leading role in helping the other countries work around laws intended to limit spying, the British newspaper said.

Spanish secret services regularly share large amounts of intercepted data with their U.S. counterparts, including details of telephone calls, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The report by leading Spanish daily El Pais supported allegations by U.S. spy chiefs and officials that European intelligence services collected information from telephone communications to hand to U.S. services.

A court in Madrid on Wednesday convicted six Somalis for piracy and sentenced them to between eight and 12 and a half years in jail for attacking a Spanish warship in 2012 off the coast of Somalia.

Spain's National Court, the country's top criminal court, convicted five men of piracy and arms possession and sentenced them to eight years each.

Electronic spying on French and Spanish phone records was carried out by those countries' intelligence services and not by the National Security Agency, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Citing unnamed U.S. officials, the Journal's report contradicted earlier accounts from French and Spanish media that alleged the NSA was scooping up millions of phone records of citizens in those countries.

Spain's public prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation Tuesday into reported mass U.S. eavesdropping on millions of telephone calls to determine if a crime was committed.

The probe comes amid European outrage over revelations that the United States snooped on the telephone and online communications of millions of ordinary citizens in Europe, including allied world leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel.