A male inmate died a day after being booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.

"Despite rigorous life-saving efforts, an inmate died Sunday at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center," MDC spokeswoman Candace Hopkins said in a news release.

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