11 Killed in Suspected Arson Attack on Northern Mexican Bar

A police officer walks next to a scene where a man threw a Molotov cocktail bomb after being kicked out of a bar for bad behavior, leaving several victims, according to Sonora state authorities, in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, on July 22, 2023. Victor Medina/Reuters

MEXICO CITY—Eleven people were killed in a suspected arson attack on a bar in the northern Mexican border city of San Luis Rio Colorado after an expelled patron set it ablaze with a Molotov cocktail, authorities in the state of Sonora said on Saturday.

Sonora state prosecutors said preliminary findings showed the suspect was young, male and highly intoxicated at the time of the attack in the early hours of Saturday, and had been thrown out of the bar for being disrespectful to women there.