At least 39 people were killed on Monday night and 29 others seriously injured when a fire broke out at a government-run migration facility in northern Mexico, near the border with the United States.
The fire broke out in the accommodation area of the National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juárez, a border city across from El Paso, Texas, shortly before 10 pm, according to a statement by the facility, reports New York Times.
Sixty-eight men from Central and South America were being housed there.
According to the statement from the institute, the 29 injured men were in serious condition and had been transported to local hospitals for urgent care.
The institute added that it had begun communicating “with consular authorities from different countries” in order to identify the dead.
A formal complaint had been lodged with what the statement identified as the “corresponding authorities,” clearing the way for an investigation.
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