Two guards who fled a fireplace that killed 40 migrants in a locked cell at a Mexican detention heart didn’t have keys to the cell door
MEXICO CITY — Two guards who fled a fireplace that killed 40 migrants in a locked Mexican detention heart didn’t have keys to the cell door, Mexico’s president stated Tuesday.
The feedback by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador got here on the identical day that the our bodies of 17 Guatemala migrants and 6 Hondurans killed within the fireplace had been flown again to their residence international locations.
Relations of the victims gathered at a Guatemala Metropolis air drive base with flowers and photographs of the deceased to mark their return.
“My son, my love,” a feminine voice may very well be heard calling out, amid sobs from these current because the coffins had been unloaded and positioned in a line, and family members had been allowed to strategy them.
It was unclear what impact López Obrador’s feedback Tuesday might need on the trial of the guards.
“The door was closed, as a result of the one that had the keys wasn’t there,” López Obrador stated.
A video from a safety digital camera inside the ability exhibits guards strolling away when the fireplace began in late March contained in the cell holding migrants.
The guards are seen hurrying away as smoke fills the ability, and they didn’t seem to make any effort to launch the migrants.
Three Mexican immigration officers, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant are being held for investigation in reference to the fireplace. They face murder costs.
The migrant allegedly set fireplace to foam mattresses on the detention heart to protest what he apparently thought had been plans to maneuver or deport the migrants.
Additionally Tuesday, Mexican army planes carried the our bodies six migrants to Honduras and 17 to Guatemala. Authorities say 19 of the 40 useless had been from that nation, however the different two our bodies are nonetheless within the course of of getting their identities confirmed.
An extra 11 Guatemalans had been injured within the fireplace.
Guatemalan Overseas Minister Mario Búcaro accompanied the our bodies, which had been to be taken overland to their hometowns in 9 completely different provinces.
Some our bodies of Salvadoran migrants had been returned to El Salvador final week. To date, 31 our bodies have been despatched again to their residence international locations.