11 killed, 4 injured in Mexico arson

Mexico City (Best Hindu News): At least 11 people have been killed and four injured after a bar was set ablaze in the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora. Local officials gave this information. The Sonora attorney general’s office said in a statement Saturday that the incident occurred Saturday morning when an unidentified man, allegedly intoxicated, threw a burning object at the door of the cantina after being escorted out by staff.

“According to multiple witnesses, the youth was groping women at the bar, so he was escorted away and then returned and apparently threw some type of ‘Molotov’ bomb at the door of the building, which led to the incident,” the statement said. Seven men and four women are among the dead. The injured have been taken to hospitals in the city and in the United States.

In coordination with the federal, local and municipal governments, the Ministerial Criminal Investigation Agency and specialist services are working to trace the alleged perpetrator on the spot. San Luis Rio Colorado Mayor Santos González Yascas called the attack “a tragedy” and said civil defense workers and municipal officials were assisting with the investigation.