A fire in a Migrant detention center in northern Mexico has resulted in 39 deaths and 29 wounded. Footage of the location showed rows of bodies under emergency blankets in front of the compound. Ambulances, firefighters and morgue vans were also visible.
He the fire would break out on Monday night in a center on the Mexican side of the border with El Paso. El Diario de Juárez, a local news outlet, noted that the injured were taken to four hospitals.
Ciudad Juárez is a major transit point for migrants arriving in the United States. Its shelters are filled with migrants awaiting crossing opportunities or who have applied for asylum in the United States and are waiting for their case to be reviewed.
Mexico’s attorney general’s office has opened an investigation and has had investigators on the scene, media reported.
Source: Clarin
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