Some 900 migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, were detained at the facility when the fire took place on Sunday, according to the International Organisation for Migration
A leader of the migrant community in the Yemeni capital on March 14 called for an international probe into a fire that tore through a detention centre last week, killing at least 44 people, mostly Ethiopian migrants.
In a news conference in Sanaa, Othman Gilto, who heads the Ethiopian community, blamed “negligence” by the Houthi rebels who control the capital, as well as the United Nations, which has aid agencies present in Yemen. The fire also injured more than 200 people, he said.
Some 900 migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, were detained at the facility — including 350 inside a warehouse — when the fire took place on Sunday, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
“Conditions in the holding facility, which was three times overcapacity, were inhumane and unsafe,” said António…