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Fire at immigration detention center in Mexico kills 40

Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico.
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Forensic investigators begin the task of transporting the bodies of migrants that died after a fire broke out at a Mexican immigration detention center in Juarez on Monday, March 27. A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the U.S. border left more than three dozen migrants dead. It was one of the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup in the country.
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A migrant cries leaning on an ambulance as a person she knows is attended by medics after a fire broke out at the Mexican Immigration Detention center in Juarez on Monday, March, 27.
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A migrant is rushed to the hospital after a fire broke out a Mexican immigration detention center in Juarez on Monday, March 27.
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The bodies of migrants lay covered after a deadly fire broke out at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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Paramedics carry a migrant who was wounded in a deadly fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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A soldier guards the entrance of an immigration detention center where a deadly fire broke out in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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Paramedics and security forces work amid the covered bodies of migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28.
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Migrants grieve in front at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.
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Police stand guard outside a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.
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Barrier tape to prohibit passage blocks an entrance to a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.
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A Venezuelan migrant woman cries in front at of a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.

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