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Fire at immigration detention center in Mexico kills 40

Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico.

By Associated Press and The El Paso Times

March 28, 2023

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THE EL PASO TIMES VIA AP

Forensic investigators begin the task of transporting the bodies of migrants that died after a fire broke out at a Mexican immigration detention center in Juarez on Monday, March 27. A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the U.S. border left more than three dozen migrants dead. It was one of the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup in the country.
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A migrant cries leaning on an ambulance as a person she knows is attended by medics after a fire broke out at the Mexican Immigration Detention center in Juarez on Monday, March, 27.
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A migrant is rushed to the hospital after a fire broke out a Mexican immigration detention center in Juarez on Monday, March 27.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

The bodies of migrants lay covered after a deadly fire broke out at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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Paramedics carry a migrant who was wounded in a deadly fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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A soldier guards the entrance of an immigration detention center where a deadly fire broke out in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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Paramedics and security forces work amid the covered bodies of migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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Migrants grieve in front at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.
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Police stand guard outside a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.
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Barrier tape to prohibit passage blocks an entrance to a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.
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A Venezuelan migrant woman cries in front at of a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.

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