An attack on a bar in Mexico's Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos has left 23 people dead and 13 injured. The attackers started a fire that burned through the bar, killing eight women and 15 men.
MEXICO CITY — An attack on a bar in Mexico’s Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos killed 23 people and injured 13 late Tuesday.
The attackers started a fire that ripped through the bar, killing 8 women and 15 men. Photos of the scene showed tables and chairs jumbled around, apparently as people tried to flee. State police identified the establishment as the “Bar Caballo Blanco,” and said the search was continuing for the attackers.It came almost eight years to the day after a fire started in 2011 at a casino in the northern city of Monterrey killed 52 people. The Zetas drug cartel staged that attack to enforce demands for protection payments.
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