REUTERS/Victor MedinaMEXICO CITY, July 22 (Reuters) - 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.
He then came back and threw a kind of Molotov cocktail at the doors of the bar, according to a statement from prosecutors in the state, which shares a long border with Arizona.
Four of the 11 dead were women, and four more people were being treated in hospital for their injuries, they added.
Santos Gonzalez, the mayor of the city, said that the suspect, a man, had been arrested by police.
Reporting by Dave Graham; Additional reporting by Natalia Ramos editing by Diane Craft and Paul SimaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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