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Migrants start fire at Mexico detention centre, killing 40

Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention centre in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people, the president said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup.

Outside an immigration centre in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 28, 2023. (AP)

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