Officials confirmed more than three dozen people died in the fire. Shelters in Ciudad Juarez are at capacity – crowded with migrants fleeing their countries.
A deadly fire tore through a detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just south of El Paso, Texas.
The National Immigration Institute says 68 men from Central and South America were being held at the detention center. It's unclear how many other migrants were in the facility. Mexico president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said migrants fearing deportation protested by igniting a fire.
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Fire kills dozens at migrant center in Mexico's Ciudad JuárezAt least 39 people were killed and 29 others were injured in a fire that broke out late Monday at a migrant center in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez near the U.S. border, according to officials.
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