Fire at Juvenile Detention Center causes 9 deaths.
A fire in a cell at the Provisional Detention Center (CIP) in the Seventh Battalion of the Military Police, in Jardim Europa, Goiânia, left at least nine dead and several injured on Friday morning; the Fire Department has not released the cause of the fire; according to preliminary information, the inmates themselves started the fire during an alleged attempted rebellion.
Option Newspaper - A fire in a cell at the Provisional Detention Center (CIP) in the Seventh Battalion of the Military Police, in Jardim Europa, Goiânia, left at least nine dead and several injured on the morning of this Friday (May 25).
The Fire Department has not released the cause of the fire. According to preliminary information, the inmates themselves started the fire during an alleged attempted rebellion. The fire has already been extinguished.
In a statement, the press office of the Secretariat for Women, Social Development, Racial Equality, Human Rights and Labor (Secretariat for Citizens), responsible for the CIP, denied that there had been a rebellion, but did not give further details about the fire.
The department said it will only release more information about the damage and measures to be taken at the site after the work of the Fire Department and the Military Police.
Governor José Eliton (PSDB), who is in Cuiabá to participate in a meeting of the Central Brazil Governors' Forum, informed that he will immediately return to Goiânia because of the tragedy.