MEXICO CITY: A man who was kicked out of a bar in Mexico for misbehaving with women returned and set it on fire, killing 11 people, authorities said Saturday.
The arson attack took place on the night of Friday to Saturday in the city of San Luis Rio Colorado in the northern state of Sonora, which borders the United States.
The fire killed seven men and four women and injured six others, the Sonora state prosecutor’s office said.
The attacker was ejected from the bar “for disrespectful treatment of women” and then returned and threw a burning object, possibly a Molotov cocktail, at him, prosecutors said.
The mayor of San Luis Rio Colorado, which borders the border south of Yuma, Arizona, said later in the day that a suspect had been arrested in the deadly attack on the Beer House bar. He did not identify the man.
