Mexico begins returning bodies of migrants killed in fire
4 years agoMigrants, media members, and supporters surround Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's vehicle after participating in a private meeting in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on March 31, 2023. - 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. 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. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP)
Mexico began returning the bodies of 40 migrants who died in a fire at a detention centre in the northern city of Juarez, the government said on Friday.