11 killed in arson attack at bar in northern Mexico

A person who was thrown out of a bar in Mexico for improper conduct towards ladies went again and set hearth to it, killing 11 folks, authorities stated Saturday. The suspect has been arrested, officers stated. 

The arson assault occurred in a single day Friday into Saturday within the city of San Luis Rio Colorado, within the northern state of Sonora, which borders the U.S.

The hearth killed seven males and 4 ladies and wounded six others, the state prosecutor’s workplace in Sonora stated.

The attacker was expelled from the bar “for treating ladies disrespectfully,” after which returned and threw a flaming object into it, presumably a Molotov cocktail, the prosecutor’s workplace stated.

Santos González Yescas, the mayor of San Luis Rio Colorado —which abuts the border south of Yuma, Arizona — tweeted Saturday afternoon {that a} suspect had been arrested within the deadly assault on the Beer Home bar. He didn’t establish the person.