EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The mayor of Juarez, Mexico, says an investigation is ongoing after 32 adults and two children came down with food poisoning at a city-run migrant shelter early Monday.
Nearly a dozen ambulances transported the migrants between midnight and 3 a.m. from the Kiki Romero municipal gym-turned-shelter to various government hospitals with symptoms of food poisoning, according to two police reports obtained by Border Report.
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The patients were citizens of Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico.
Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar said the migrants were in recovery as of 9 a.m., including two who were initially reported with life-threatening symptoms. He said city authorities suspect meals prepared at a facility some distance away from the shelter were either picked up late for delivery or taken out of fridges too early.
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The same facility prepares meals for migrants staying at Kiki Romero as well as the Leona Vicario federal shelter.