CNN —
Mexican officials announced on Tuesday that at least 38 people died on Monday night due to a fire that broke out at a government-run migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, a city in northern Mexico, on the United States border.
Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) revised the death toll down to 38 from after they announced the death toll as at least 40 deaths earlier Tuesday.
The deadly blaze has underlined the urgent situation in Mexican cities along the border, which have been inundated with migrants sent back from the US by a pandemic-era public health restriction that is set to expire in early May.
According to the agency, the fire at the INM facility started shortly after 10 p.m. inside an accommodation area. Authorities said it broke out after they picked up and detained a group of migrants from the streets of the border city, which sits across from El Paso, Texas.
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2023-03-29 07:49:37
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