Published 1 year ago

38 dead in Mexico fire after guards didn't let migrants out

Summary by Ground News

Surveillance video leaked Tuesday shows migrants, reportedly fearing they were about to be moved, placing foam mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and setting them on fire. In the video, later confirmed by the government, two people dressed as guards rush into the camera frame, and at least one migrant appears by the metal gate on the other side. But the guards don’t appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.

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BBC News

Video of deadly fire at Mexico migrant centre causes outrage

Footage appears to show officers failing to open a cell door as the fire erupted.

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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CTV News

38 dead in Mexico fire after guards didn't let migrants out

Infante Padron recounted how she saw immigration agents rush out of the building after fire started late Monday. Later came the migrants' bodies carried out on stretchers, wrapped in foil blankets. The toll: 38 dead in all and 28 seriously injured, victims of a blaze apparently set in protest by the detainees themselves.

1 year ago·Canada

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Associated Press News

Angry migrants head toward border crossing after deadly fire

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — The death toll from a fire inside a migrant detention center rose to 39 Wednesday as hundreds of migrants began walking toward a U.S. border

1 year ago·United States

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USA Today

Dozens dead in fire at Mexican migrant detention center, SBF indicted: 5 Things podcast

Dozens died in a fire at a Mexico migrant detention center near the US border, the murder conviction against Adnan Syed is reinstated: 5 Things podcast.

1 year ago·United States

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Global News

Mexico fire: Guards didn’t let migrants out after blaze started, footage shows - National

Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, which ran the migrant detention facility, said it was cooperating in the ongoing investigation.

1 year ago·Toronto, Canada

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abc News

38 dead in Mexico fire after guards didn't let migrants out

When smoke began billowing out of a migrant detention center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan migrant Viangly Infante Padrón was terrified because she knew her husband was still inside

1 year ago·United States

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