He Government of Mexico adjusted from 40 to 38 the number of deceased migrants during a fire that occurred on Monday night in a detention center in the mexicana Ciudad Juárez, bordering the United States.
He National Institute of Migration (INM) He said in a statement that after a tour of the hospitals where the victims were admitted, “the number of deceased people was updated and 38 deaths were confirmed.”
Hours before, the INM had said that they totaled 40 killed by firealthough earlier he had reported 39 deaths.
In its statement, the institute did not provide further details about the change in the death toll.
He INM It also disclosed the nationalities and names of the people who were in the detention center at the time of the incident.
He explained that there was a person in the place Colombia, one from Ecuador, 12 from El Salvador, 28 from Guatemala, 13 from Honduras and 13 from Venezuelareported the AFP news agency.
“It is done because it is a tragedy in which, guaranteeing access to public informationwill help the relatives of the victims to find out if one of their own was in the INM ranch,” he said.
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 Ministrya reported the death of one of its citizens.
The incident broke out on Monday night at the facilities of the INM in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua stateoccupied by dozens of men of legal age from Central and South America.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said 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.
Ciudad Juárez, a neighbor of El Paso, Texasis one of the border towns where numerous migrants seeking to cross to USA to ask for shelter.
Source: Ambito
