Deadly fire at Mexico migrant center near US border

A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the US border left more than three dozen migrants dead, a government agency said Tuesday.The blaze broke out late Monday at the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.Thirty-nine people died and 29 were injured and are in “delicate-serious” condition, according to Mexico's National Immigration Institute.

There were 68 men from Central and South America held in the facility at the time of the fire, the agency said.It was the deadliest incident inside a Mexican immigration facility in recent memory.Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire and the governmental National Human Rights Commission had been called in to help the migrants.The agency said that it “energetically rejects the actions that led to this tragedy” without any further explanation of what those actions might have been.