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(NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at the Instituto Nacional de Migración, a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 39 people, officials said in a statement.

The center houses migrants near the Puente Internacional Lerdo Stanton bridge to El Paso, Texas.

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