Mexico
Juarez tragedy: death toll rises to 40
A fire at a detention center in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, on the border with the United States, killed the fortieth migrant on Tuesday, March 28.
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Photographs of migrants killed in a fire outside the Ciudad Juarez detention center on March 30, 2023.
AFP
The latest victim, whose citizenship has not been granted, succumbed to his burns after being airlifted from Ciudad Juarez to a burn care center in the capital, Mexico City, by the Secretariat of Defense (Ministry).
A total of 27 people were injured in the fire, of which 23 were hospitalized, the government added. 5 more injured were transferred to Mexico City.
Five people, including an immigrant, were arrested in an investigation into the murder. The migrant is suspected to have set the mattress on fire in protest. The other four arrested were government employees or security agents suspected of doing nothing to help the migrants trapped in their rooms when the fire broke out.
Video released by several media outlets shows the three officers leaving, leaving the settlers behind bars in the smoke of the fire.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who visited Juárez on Friday, said “there will be no punishment,” but migrants lined his car to demand justice.
(AFP)
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