![]() “Even if we are illegal or undocumented, we are human beings who feel. ![]() He was taken to the hospital with breathing problems, Reuters reported.Īnother Venezuelan migrant, Emilio Jose, who was looking for his wife, told Reuters that he was not being given any information regarding her whereabouts. Her husband, 27-year-old Eduard Caraballo, was inside the detention center and survived by spraying water on himself, according to Infante, who said she saw many dead bodies. They never opened the door,” 31-year-old Viangly Infante, a Venezuelan national, told the agency. Everybody was removed from the area, but they left the men locked in. “At 10 p.m., we started to see smoke billowing from everywhere, everybody ran away but they left the men locked in. Fighting back tears, she blamed Mexican authorities and claimed the doors to the detention center were not opened. “It is with deep sadness and grief that we learned of the fire that occurred inside the INM in Ciudad Juárez,” she said on Twitter.Īn eyewitness to the blaze, a Venezuelan woman whose husband was trapped inside the building and injured in the fire, spoke to Reuters news agency. Jose Luis Gonzalez/ReutersĪndrea Chavez, Ciudad Juarez’s federal deputy, shared her condolences with families of the migrants, and said that Mexican authorities had launched an investigation to determine who was responsible for the tragedy. it also appears to show that those detained were behind bars with the gate locked.Įmergency workers stand near the bodies of the migrants, mostly from Venezuela, who died in the fire. Some of the victims’ bodies were covered in black soot, placed next to each other in a row.Ī separate surveillance video from inside the center obtained by CNN shows how quickly the flames spread throughout the holding area after inmates set mattresses on fire. Video recorded at the scene of the tragedy showed first responders aiding survivors, wrapping them in silver, thermal blankets, before placing them on stretchers and into ambulances.įirefighters carried limp, lifeless bodies from the building. “It is very sad that this is happening,” the president added. ![]() “This had to do with a protest that they started after, we assume, they found out that they were going to be deported, and as a protest, they put mattresses from the shelter at the door of the shelter, and they set fire to them and they did not imagine that this was going to cause this terrible accident.” We still do not know exactly the names and nationalities of those who unfortunately lost their lives,” López Obrador said. “What we know so far is that migrants from Central America and some from Venezuela were in that shelter. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the men detained at the center were angry at the officials, and had been demonstrating against their deportation. Viangly Infante, a Venezuelan migrant, reacts outside an ambulance for her injured husband Eduard Caraballo while Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants from inside the National Migration Institute building. At least 11 migrants remain in hospital following the fire, according to the government of Mexico’s Chihuahua state. It is unclear how many people of each nationality were killed or injured. One man was Colombian, one was Ecuadorian, 12 were Salvadorans, 13 were Honduran and 13 were Venezuelan, the INM said. At least 28 Guatemalan nationals were among the dead, Guatemala’s Institute of Migration confirmed. Sixty-eight men from Central and South America were being held at the facility, the INM said in a statement. Authorities said it broke out after they picked up and detained a group of migrants from the streets of the border city, which sits across from El Paso, Texas. inside an accommodation area, according to the agency. The fire at the INM facility started shortly after 10 p.m. The deadly blaze has underlined the urgent situation in Mexican cities along the border, which have been inundated with migrants sent back from the US by a pandemic-era public health restriction that is set to expire in early May. Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) revised the death toll down to 38 from after they announced the death toll as at least 40 deaths earlier Tuesday. ![]() At least 38 people died on Monday night when a fire broke out at a government-run migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, a city in northern Mexico, on the United States border, Mexican officials said Tuesday. ![]()
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