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Mexico Opens Homicide Investigation After 39 Killed in Migrant Detention Center Fire

‘SERIOUS CRIME’

Survivors of the blaze said dozens of people were locked in their cells as the flames spread.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

Soldiers keep watch at the entrance of a migrant detention center, after a fire broke out leaving several casualties, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 27, 2023.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Dan Ladden-Hall

Dan Ladden-Hall

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