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Firefighters and police rescue migrants from an immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, March 27, 2023. /CFP
At least 39 migrants died after a fire broke out at a migrant facility in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, the government's National Migration Institute (INM) said on Tuesday.
There were 68 adult men from Central and South America staying at the facility, the institute said in a statement.
Twenty-nine migrants were also injured in the blaze and were taken to four hospitals in the area, the institute said.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the blaze appeared to have broken out after migrants set fire to mattresses in protest after discovering they would be deported.
"They didn't think that would cause this terrible tragedy," Lopez Obrador told a news conference, noting that most migrants at the facility were from Central America and Venezuela.
The Guatemalan Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that 28 Guatemalan migrants are believed to have died in the fire.
(With input from Reuters)
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