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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sravasti Dasgupta

Mexico accuses guards of locking detainees in to die in migrant centre fire ‘homicide’

CIUDAD JUAREZ IMMIGRATION CENTER CCTV

Authorities in Mexico said that eight employees are being investigated for possible homicide after a fire at a migrant detention centre killed 39 detainees earlier this week.

The fire broke out inside the National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juarez, across from the US-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas, shortly before 10pm on 27 March, according to Mexico’s National Immigration Institute.

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