Fire kills at least 39 people at migrant detention center near Mexico-US border

At least 39 people died in a fire at a migration center in Ciudad Juarez, a city on Mexico’s border with the United States. Authorities said the fire at the office of National Migration Institute (INM) broke out after they picked up a group of migrants from the streets of the city, and detained them. The cause of the fire or the victims’ nationalities have not been released by Mexico’s National Migration Institute, who have launched an investigation into the blaze, which left 29 people injured.

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