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ABC News
ABC News
28 Mar 2023
ABC News


A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 39 people, officials said in a statement.

PHOTO: Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants, mostly Venezuelans, from inside the National Migration Institute (INM) building during a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants from inside the National Migration Institute building during a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 27, 2023.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

The fire broke out at about 10 p.m. on Monday evening at the Instituto Nacional de Migración, Mexico's Institute of Migration said early Tuesday. The center houses migrants near the Puente Internacional Lerdo Stanton bridge to El Paso, Texas.

Sixty-eight men from Central and South America had been housed in the facility, officials said. The dead were all migrants, according to the statement.

PHOTO: Children from Venezuela watch as Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants from inside the National Migration Institute building during a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 27, 2023.
Children from Venezuela watch as Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants from inside the National Migration Institute building during a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 27, 2023.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

Another 29 migrants were injured, some seriously, and were transferred to four local hospitals, the statement said.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.