Five Arrested in Mexico Over Deadly Fire at Migrant Detention Center
Members of the National Guard reinforce a police presence at the Ojo de Agua toll booths to prevent members of the Free Transit movement, who are against tolls, from blocking traffic and collecting donations from drivers, on the Mexico-Pachua highway, in the state of Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. 
InternationalIndiaAfricaMEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Five out of six arrest warrants issued by Mexican prosecutors as part of the investigation into this week’s fire at a migrant detention center in the city of Ciudad Juarez, which killed at least 39 people, have already been executed, Mexican Public Safety Secretary Rosa Icela Rodriguez said. On March 28, a fire broke out at a detention center for migrants who tried to illegally cross the US-Mexican border. According to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the detainees started the fire themselves in a protest against deportations. “Five arrest warrants have already been executed; there is one more person [still not arrested], the others have already been brought before a judge,” Rodriguez said on Thursday at a press conference. 
AmericasDeath Toll From Fire in Mexican Migration Center Reaches 3928 March, 20:21 GMTAccording to the minister, the warrants were issued against three immigration officials, two private security guards and a migrant accused of starting the fire. At least 39 people died in the fire, and 28 others were injured. All of the victims have been identified. The majority of them are from Guatemala, but there are also people from Salvador, Venezuela, Honduras and Colombia.
