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Hours after it was announced that 41 people died inside a shelter in the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Ciudad Juárez and 29 more were in critical condition, the nationalities of those who occurred were revealed.
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) announced that the dead immigrants are of the following nationalities: 1 Colombian, 1 Ecuadorian, 12 Salvadorans, 28 Guatemalans, 13 Hondurans and 12 Venezuelans, all of them male.
They were also evacuated from the immigration building 15 women without injuries.
According to the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the fire occurred after the immigrants started a protest after learning that they were going to be deported “as a protest at the door of the shelter they put mats on fire and did not imagine that this was going to cause this terrible misfortune.”
The INM reported that in the immigration station that It is located next to the Laredo-Stanton International Bridge, in front of the City Hall, and a few miles from the border with the United States, there were 68 men of legal age and all of them were from South and Central America.
The survivors revealed to the newspaper La Verdad that the people who lost their lives on the night of Monday, March 27, had been expelled from the United States under Title 42.
According to INM the fire was registered on Monday, March 27, around 10:00 p.m. and the first images that were revealed showed dozens of bodies piled up on the outskirts of the building that marks the limit of Ciudad Juárez with El Paso.
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