Revenge: 11 people killed in arson attack after patron expelled from Mexican border city bar

Eleven people were killed after a purported arson attack on a bar located in the northern Mexican border city of San Luis Rio Colorado. The fire started after the bar’s management forced a customer to leave, and he allegedly attacked it with a Molotov cocktail, Sonora police said on Saturday.

Prosecutors for the Mexican State of Sonora said their initial investigation identified a young, male suspected who was highly intoxicated at the time of the arson.

They said the incident occurred in the small hours of Saturday morning, after he was expelled from the bar for treating women with disrespect.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

In a fit or revenge, the young man then allegedly returned and threw a Molotov cocktail style device at the bar’s front doors, according to Sonora prosecutors.

Of the 11 who were killed, seven were men and four were women while four others are being treated for wounds in an area hospital.

Sonora Attorney General Gustavo Romulo Salas told a reporters at a press conference that one of the women who died was only 17 years old and another was a dual U.S.-Mexican national.

San Luis Rio Colorado Mayor Santos Gonzalez said that the suspect, a man, was arrested by police.