An attack on a bar in Mexico's Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos killed 25 people and injured about a dozen, officials said Wednesday, and they said it was apparently overseen by a man who had been recently arrested but released.
"The criminals went in, closed the doors, the emergency exits, and set
fire to the place," President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily morning news conference.
Veracruz state
police said the Tuesday night attack targeted the "Bar Caballo Blanco," though the bar's name was in English on a sign outside: "The White Horse Nightclub." It advertised "quality, security and service," private rooms for $7.50 "all night," ''sexy girls" and a pole dance contest.