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    At least 40 migrants killed in a fire at a detention center in Mexico

    by Kate Linthicum, Patrick J. McDonnell and Gabriela Minjares, Los Angeles Times Mar 28, 2023 6 minutes
    Viangly, a Venezuelan migrant, cries next to an ambulance in which her husband, who was injured in a fire, is being transported after a fire at the immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on March 28, 2023.

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — At least 40 migrants were killed and dozens more were injured Monday night when a fire broke out in an immigrant detention center in Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, authorities said Tuesday.

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the blaze in Ciudad Juarez probably began when migrants learned that they were going to be deported to their home countries — and ignited mattresses in protest. He said most of the dead were from Central and South America.

    “They never imagined it would cause this terrible tragedy,” López Obrador said.

    A Mexican federal official with knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity offered a different explanation, saying the protest began because 68 men were packed into a cell meant for no more than 50 people — with no access to drinking water.

    A surveillance video clip shows flames spreading inside a locked cell as several men plead for help. At the end of the 32-second video,

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