Several arrest warrants requested after video emerges which appears to show guards leaving as fire engulfs a cell with migrants locked inside
39 migrants in a fire at a Mexican detention centre
An investigation was opened “for the crime of homicide and damage to property,” though other possible crimes will also be considered, Sara Irene Herrerias, a prosecutor specialising in human rights, said.“None of the public servants or the private security personnel took any action to open the door for the migrants who were inside,” she told reporters.
Those found to have been responsible for “causing this painful tragedy will be punished in conformity with the law,” he added. El Salvador, which said some of its citizens were seriously injured, demanded that the people in charge of the facility be punished since the video showed migrants “were left inside the cells without any chance of getting to safety.”
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