Mexico adjusts death toll from fire at immigration detention center to 38

The government of Mexico adjusted on Tuesday from 40 to 38 the number of migrants deceased during a fire that occurred on Monday night in a detention center in the Mexican Juarez Cityborder with USA.

He Migration’s national institute (INM) said in a statement that after touring the hospitals where the victims were admitted “the number of deceased people was updated and 38 deaths were confirmed”.

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Hours before, the INM He had said that there were 40 deaths from the fire, although earlier he had reported 39 deaths. In his statement, the institute did not provide further details about the change in the death toll.

The INM also released the nationalities and names of the people who were in the detention center at the time of the incident.

“It is done because it is a tragedy in which, guaranteeing access to public information, will help the relatives of the victims to find out if one of their own was in the INM ranch“, said.

He explained that there was a person in the place Colombiaone of Ecuador12 of The Savior28 of Guatemala13 of Honduras and 13 of Venezuela.

The institute did not explain how many people died by nationality. However, earlier the Guatemalan government confirmed the death of 28 of its nationals and the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reported the death of one of its citizens.

The incident broke out on Monday night at the facilities of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in this city in the state of Chihuahuaoccupied by dozens of men of legal age from Central America and South America.

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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday that the fire originated from a protest by migrants, who set fire to some mattresses.

Video surveillance images released by the Mexican media show how a group of people, apparently migrants, kick a gate trying to open it while the fire spreads in the place where they are locked up.

Juarez Cityneighbor of Step, Texasis one of the border towns where numerous migrants seeking to cross to USA to ask for shelter.

Source: Elcomercio

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