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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta

‘Ticking time bomb’: Ice detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely

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Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, who died aged 68. Photograph: Courtesy of Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado’s family

A 68-year-old Mexican-born man has become the first Ice detainee in at least a decade to die while being transported from a local jail to a federal detention center, and experts have warned there will likely be more such deaths amid the current administration’s “mass deportation” push across the US.

Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado’s exact cause of death remains under investigation, according to Ice, but the Guardian’s reporting reveals a confusing and at times contradictory series of events surrounding the incident.

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