Mandatory Credit: Photo by Luis Torres/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (13848253d) Emergency and rescue team members arrive to the fire where 37 migrants that have died at Immigration National Institute of Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico on 28 March 2023. 37 dead in fire at Immigration National Institute in Mexico, Ciudad Juarez - 28 Mar 2023
At least 39 people died in a fire at a migration center in Ciudad Juarez, a city on Mexico’s border with the United States, officials said.
Authorities said the fire at the office of National Migration Institute (INM) broke out after they picked up a group of migrants from the streets of the city, and detained them.
The cause of the fire or the victims’ nationalities have not been released by Mexico’s National Migration Institute, who have launched an investigation into the blaze, which left 29 people injured.
However, Guatemala’s Institute of Migration later confirmed that at least 28 Guatemalan nationals were among those killed.
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also provided other details saying migrants from Central America and some from Venezuela were in the shelter.
The names and nationalities of those who unfortunately lost their lives has not been ascertained according to the president
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