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Tieng Anh Vui
The Gibraltar government has accused Spain of "unacceptable" behaviour by deliberately engineering border delays.
It said Spain created "deliberate hold-ups" to traffic travelling from Spain to the British territory on Sunday.
That was after nearly six hours of delays for those leaving Gibraltar on Saturday in temperatures of 30C (86F) as Spanish authorities searched "practically every vehicle".
It follows earlier accusations of Spanish incursions into British waters.
Spain disputes UK sovereignty over Gibraltar, which became a British colony since 1713.
Travel 'torture'
In a strongly worded statement, the government of Gibraltar said on Sunday: "The Spanish Government has inflicted these unnecessary delays on the elderly, children and the infirm in up to 30 degrees of heat.
"This torture has resulted in an ambulance being deployed to treat people with medical conditions. On Friday, for instance, a Spanish man had to be taken to hospital with chest pains."
It said the delays had affected tourists and "thousands" of people who go in and out of Gibraltar every day to work.
Gibraltar's Deputy Chief Minister, Joseph Garcia, said: "Spain has again shown that she cannot resolve issues through normal diplomatic channels.
"Instead she merely resorts to heavy-hand tactics at the frontier. The behaviour of the Spanish authorities is unacceptable, un-European and illegal."
Fellow government ministers John Cortes and Steven Linares distributed water on Saturday afternoon to motorists caught in the queues at the border, and the Royal Gibraltar Police called in 10 additional officers to help with traffic control.
'Forgotten by UK'
Gareth Gingell, who is a member of the Defenders of Gibraltar group, handed out water to people stuck in the queues at the frontier on Sunday.
He told the BBC the Guardia Civil was "only letting one car through about every thirty minutes".
"It's taking about four hours for people to get through," he said.
"We've had to endure this kind of thing all yesterday and all the day before. I feel like we've been forgotten by the UK government."
It follows a dispute earlier in the week that led the British government to say it would make a formal protest to the Spanish government.
The Foreign Office said Spanish Guardia Civil vessels "attempted to disrupt the activities of a contractor commissioned by the government of Gibraltar to carry out civil works" on Wednesday and Thursday when they unlawfully entered British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.
The Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron, Royal Gibraltar Police and Gibraltar Defence Police were later deployed to prevent the disruption.
'Gridlocked'
A resident of Gibraltar, David Gibbins, told the BBC Saturday's delays meant the tiny British overseas territory - which has a population of less than 30,000 - was "gridlocked".
"It blocked the whole town," he said.
"People couldn't go to the beach, they couldn't go to their houses and they couldn't go to see their families."
He caught the tail-end of Saturday's queue to leave the island.
He said border guards were "checking every bit of paperwork", which he said never normally happened.
Spain has yet to respond to the accusations it deliberately caused the delays.
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