The fire broke out at an immigration detention centre near the U.S. – Mexico border
A fire started by migrants in a protest against deportations killed at least 39 people.
The blaze broke out late Monday at a Mexican immigration detention centre near the U.S. border.
The country’s President says the migrants lit the fire as a demonstration because they feared they would be deported.
Apparently the men put mats at the door of the shelter and set them on fire as a protest, but they did not imagine that it would cause this terrible tragedy.
The centre housed 68 adult males from Central and South America.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees appealed to countries in the region “to deal in a humane, just, effective manner with growing population flows through the Americas.”
The dead and injured included people from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia and Ecuador, Mexican authorities said.
