At least 39 people have been killed in a horrific fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico.
According to international media reports, dozens of people have been killed and injured in a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the US border.
The tragic incident took place in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, where dozens of people were killed and injured in a horrific fire at an immigration lock-up.
Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said in a statement that at least 39 people were killed in the fire and 29 were injured and taken to hospital.
The facility housed 68 people from Central and South America.
According to media reports, Mexico’s attorney general’s office has opened an investigation and investigators are on the scene.
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