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.

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Published Mar. 30 2023 7:00AM EDT

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

Prosecutors in Mexico on Wednesday opened a homicide investigation into the fire at a migrant detention center that left 39 people dead. The blaze late Monday in Ciudad

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

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

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