Authorities in Mexico launched an internal investigation for homicide over security camera footage, that captures guards fleeing as flames consume a cell with detained migrants.
In the video, three guards appear to flee migrants in their cell without providing help, while flames and smoke quickly fill the building.
Sara Irene Herrerias, a prosecutor and activist for human rights told AFP that “neither the government employees nor the private security guards did anything to help the migrants who were already inside.”
According to Mexican Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez, eight employees have been accused of being in charge of the failure that followed the fire.
She stated: “the law will punish anyone involved in this horrible catastrophe.”
According to Mexican police, among the 27 injured were citizens from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Migrants left candles and flowers in a vigil they held outside the center, demanding better migrant treatment by authorities.They also held protests in Mexico City and the country’s southern region.
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