Following the deaths of the children at the Mexican Day Care Centre the following article was issued by Reuters
Mexico arrests seven in deadly day-care fire
Tuesday, June 23 02:49 am
Mexican police have arrested seven government employees for their involvement in a fire at a day-care centre this month that killed 47 small children, the government said on Monday.
The employees, facing charges of criminal negligence, were responsible for a warehouse where the June 5 fire started and then spread to the nearby ABC day-care centre, the state government said in a statement.
As smoke poured from the day-care centre in the northern city of Hermosillo, bystanders and firemen, unable to pass through the doors, punched holes through its brick walls to reach more than 140 infants and toddlers.
The fire quickly killed more than a dozen children and others have since died in hospital, creating outrage at the government and the day-care centre's owners.
After melted aluminium from a faulty air conditioner ignited paper on the floor of the warehouse, where the government stored licence plates and documents, heat and fire spread into the rafters of the industrial building and across to the day-care centre, the government says.
(Reporting by Noel Randewich)
