Salvadoran man dies in ICE custody at New Jersey detention centre

Second Delaney Hall detainee death in eight months prompts calls to close facility, demands for answers.

A Salvadoran man detained at a New Jersey immigration facility has died, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed, in the second such death at the facility in less than a year.

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, died on Saturday at a Newark hospital after experiencing a medical emergency at the Delaney Hall detention facility, ICE said in a statement on Monday.

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