By: The opinion Posted Mar 28, 2023, 11:55 am EDT
The Mexican Government raised to 40 the number of migrants killed by a fire at a station of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in Ciudad Juárez, on the border with the United States.
Although the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had reported the death of 39 migrants in his morning press conference, the spokesman for the Presidency of Mexico, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, specified that the death toll is 40.
“President López Obrador mourned the death of 40 migrants due to the fire of a shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua”, Ramírez Cuevas exposed on his social networks.
President @lopezobrador_ lamented the death of 40 migrants due to the fire at a shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. He reported that the incident occurred as a result of a protest and that the director of the INM and the FGR are already investigating to determine the responsibilities. pic.twitter.com/aqG3hhNwTq
— Jesús Ramírez Cuevas (@JesusRCuevas) March 28, 2023
The Mexican president detailed earlier that the incident occurred at 9:30 p.m. (04:30 GMT) in Ciudad Juárez, on the border with the US city of El Paso, Texas.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed a migrant protest for the fire after burning mattresses that got out of control.
“This had to do with a protest that they started, from, we suppose, that they found out that they were going to be deported, mobilized, and as a protest, they put mats at the door of the shelter and set them on fire,” he declared.
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