Mexican official charged over death of 40 migrants in fire FMTNews FMTWorld
The fire at the detention centre started after a migrant set his mattress alight in a cell to protest his possible deportation.
Salvador Gonzalez Guerrero, head of the National Institute of Migration in the northern state of Chihuahua, was charged with homicide, injury and unlawful exercise of public service, according to the federal judiciary council.According to Mexican authorities, the fire in Ciudad Juarez, on the border with the US city of El Paso, started when a migrant set fire to the mattress in his cell, where he was being held with 67 other men, to protest his possible deportation.
Nineteen Guatemalans, seven Salvadorans, seven Venezuelans, six Hondurans and one Colombian died. Most of their bodies have been repatriated.
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