MEXICO CITY: Five people have been arrested over a fire at a Mexican immigration detention center near the US border that left 39 migrants dead and 27 injured, authorities said Thursday (30th of March, 2023).

The announcement came a day after the attorney general’s office announced a homicide investigation into the disaster, accusing the people in charge of the facility of doing nothing to evacuate the migrants.

Five arrest warrants have already been executed, Sara Irene Herrerias, a prosecutor specializing in human rights, told a news conference.

They “have already been placed at the disposal of the judge,” she added.

A total of six warrants were issued against three immigration officials, two private security guards and a migrant accused of starting the fire, she said, without specifying which of them were arrested.

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