At least 37 migrants killed in fire at Mexico's migration office in Ciudad Juarez | CNN

Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants, mostly Venezuelans, from the National Migration Institute building after a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 27, 2023.

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At least 37 people died after a fire at a migration center in Mexico’s northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state said in a statement early Tuesday.

The authorities said the fire at the office of National Migration Institute (INM) occurred after they picked up about 71 migrants from the streets of the city.

The cause of the fire or the victims’ nationalities have not been released by the authorities.

CNN has reached out to Mexico’s migration authorities for statement.

Viangly, a Venezuelan migrant, reacts outside an ambulance for her injured husband Eduard Caraballo while Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants from inside the National Migration Institute building.

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