Police hunting for refugees who went missing in the riot and mass break-out attempt at Yarl's Wood immigration centre today detained two of the absconders.
More than a dozen refugees were thought to be on the run or missing but the exact figure was unknown as the £100 million sterling complex's records were destroyed in the blaze.
Police said they could not rule out the possibility that some of the missing could have died in the fire but there was no evidence of any deaths.
"We have got no information to suggest anyone was in there but it is a possibility," a Bedfordshire Police spokeswoman said.
"It is unlikely to be the case but until we have had a chance to look around we don't know."
Early figures suggested that as many as 23 men and five women had gone missing, but 12 were detained yesterday and another two were discovered today.
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