A 40-year-old Mexican man detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody at a Georgia facility died as a result of apparent suicide, ICE said Friday in a statement.

Efrain De La Rosa died Tuesday at an area hospital near the Stewart Detention Facility in Lumpkin, Ga., after he was found unresponsive in his cell as a result of a strangulation, according to the statement.

De La Rosa died of "self-inflicted strangulation" according to the statement, which notes that his death will be investigated.

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ICE added in the press release that it notified authorities at the Mexican consulate of De La Rosa's death, who notified his next of kin.

The agency called deaths at its facilities "exceedingly rare" in the statement, and pledged a full investigation while noting that De La Rosa's was the eighth death in ICE custody so far in fiscal 2018.

"Fatalities in ICE custody, statistically, are exceedingly rare and occur at a fraction of the rate of the U.S. detained population as a whole," the agency said.

"ICE is firmly committed to the health and welfare of all those in its custody and is undertaking a comprehensive agency-wide review of this incident, as it does in all such cases."

The death comes just over a month after it was reported that a Honduran man killed himself in a Texas jail cell after his wife and child were separated from him under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy that separated families at the southern border.

Some Democrats have called for the abolition of ICE over its treatment of immigrants and those it suspects to be in the country illegally, though the movement has not fully gained traction among Democratic leadership.