At least 37 people were killed after a fire broke out at a migration center along the U.S.-Mexico border, officials have said.
Many more were injured, with 21 people taken to four local hospitals, officials told Telemundo affiliate KTDO early Tuesday, after the fire at a facility run by the National Migration Institute (INM) in Ciudad Juarez.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Rescue teams,
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Images from the scene showed ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue around the facility. Injured people have been taken to four hospitals, according to Diario de Juarez.
Mexico’s attorney general’s office has launched a inquiry and has investigators at the scene, according to media reports.
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At least 39 migrants killed by fire at the @INAMI_mx National Institute of Migration station in #CiudadJuárez, Chihuahua, according to #Mexico government sources pic.twitter.com/zBfWOxzVA1
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