PhotosDevastating Fire At Mexican Immigration Detention Center
Devastating Fire At Mexican Immigration Detention Center
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.
Updated: 29 Mar 2023 12:12 pm
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The Red Cross loads a patient, injured in a migrant detention center fire, into an ambulance at a hospital in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.
A Venezuelan migrant girl lights a candle during a vigil for the victims of a fire at an immigration detention center that killed dozens, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Migrants grieve in front at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead.
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.
Authorities work at the site of a deadly fire at an immigration detention center, where covered bodies lie on the ground in Ciudad Juarez, 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.
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The bodies of dead migrants are covered with "space blankets" in the parking lot of a Mexican immigration detention center where doezens of migrants died after a fire broke out at a Mexican immigration detention center in Juarez.
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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.