Five people arrested for Mexico migrant detention centre fire that killed 39
Mexico fire video
The authorities on Thursday arrested five people over a fire incident at a Mexican immigration detention centre near the US border in which 39 migrants were killed and 27 others were injured.
The announcement was made a day after Mexico authorities announced that they areconducting a homicide probe against eight officials who appeared not to have acted when a fire hit a migrant detention centre, leading to the deaths of 39people. The video of the incident has gone viral, causing a lot of anger in the country.
The surveillance footage of the incident suggests that as the migrants placed mattresses against their detention cell and set them on fire, the guards did not attempt to get them out.
People are questioning the inaction of the guards, asking why didn't they try to save the migrants.
The fire happened at the immigration detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, across the US border from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants. At least 39people died in the horrific blaze and 27sustained severe injuries, the National Immigration Institute said.
Reports say that the detention facility housed 68 men from Central and South America at the time of the fire. Almost all were from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela and El Salvador.
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Two people in guard uniform can be seen entering the camera frame and one migrant is seen standing by the metal gate on the other side. The guards don't try to open the door and can instead be seen running away as smoke filled the facility within seconds. The 32-second clip supposedlycomes from a security camera inside the facility,
The authenticity of the video was confirmed by Adán Augusto López, Mexico’s interior secretary, in an interview with local journalist Joaquín López Doriga.
Mexican attorney general’s office said that the dead and injured were from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the migrants started the fire after they learnt that they would be deported.
“They never imagined that this would cause this terrible misfortune,” López Obrador said.
The incident forced authorities to rent refrigerated trailers to keep the bodies of migrants, Chihuahua state prosecutor Cesar Jáuregui told reporters.
(With inputs from agencies)
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