11 killed as Mexico bar set ablaze by man removed for bad behaviour

At least 11 people were killed after a man, who was thrown out of a bar in Mexico for improper behaviour towards women, went back and set fire to the bar, said officials. The suspected attacker has been arrested by the police.

This arson attack happened on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday in the town of San Luis Rio Colorado, in the northern state of Sonora, which borders the United States.

According to the state prosecutor’s office in Sonora, the fire killed 11 people, seven men and four women, and left four other people hospitalised.

The accused was expelled from the bar ‘for treating women disrespectfully,’ and then returned and threw a flaming object into it, presumably a Molotov cocktail, the prosecutor’s office said.

Authorities are trying to identify the assailant, it added.