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A fire broke out at a migrant detention facility just south of the U.S. border, killing at least 39 people in one of the deadliest tragedies in years involving foreigners detained while trying to reach the United States, authorities said Tuesday.
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Mexico’s National Migration Institute said the blaze started just before 10 p.m. Monday in the sleeping area of its facility in Ciudad Juárez, just south of El Paso. Sixty-eight men were staying in the building, according to the government-run institute. Most of the dead were Central Americans, although some were from Venezuela, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Twenty-eight of the dead were identified as Guatemalans, according to the Guatemalan Migration Institute.
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March 28 | Ciudad Juárez
People grieve at a Mexican immigration detention center where a fire left more than three dozen migrants dead.
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Christian Chavez/AP
March 28 | Ciudad Juárez
A Venezuelan woman cries in front of the detention center.
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Christian Chavez/AP
March 28 | Ciudad Juárez
Tape blocks an entrance to the detention center.
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Christian Chavez/AP
March 28 | Ciudad Juárez
Emergency workers arrive at the fire at the National Migration Institute.
Luis Torres
Luis Torres
March 28 | Ciudad Juárez
Forensic workers carry the bodies of people who died in the fire.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
March 28 | Ciudad Juárez
National Guard troops assemble during the rescue.
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March 27 | Ciudad Juárez
Firefighters and Mexican soldiers during the rescue effort.
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March 27 | Ciudad Juárez
Children watch as Mexican authorities and firefighters work to extinguish the fire.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
March 27 | Ciudad Juárez
Mexican authorities and firefighters transport injured people.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
March 27 | Ciudad Juárez
Viangly, whose husband was injured in the fire, reacts outside an ambulance.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
March 27 | Ciudad Juárez
Mexican authorities and firefighters carry injured people.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
March 27 | Ciudad Juárez
A worker attends to an injured person.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
March 27 | Ciudad Juárez
Firefighters and police on the scene.
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