Thread: Zetas Bomb Kills 8 in Cancun Bar Attack

At Least 8 Killed in Cancun Bar Attack

Published August 31, 2010


At least eight people were killed when Molotov cocktails were thrown into a bar in the Mexican town of Cancun, a resort area popular with U.S. tourists, officials said Tuesday.

"The death of eight people is confirmed. Six on site -- including four women -- and two others in hospital, also women," prosecutor Francisco Alor Quezada, from the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, told AFP.

According to witnesses, six men threw the Molotov cocktails at the establishment which had reported two attempts at extortion, apparently by the Zetas drug cartel.

Local media reports said the attack happened at around 1am local time Tuesday. It set off a fire which destroyed the bar, which is in a residential area not frequented by tourists, officials said.

The brutal Zetas, first set up by former paramilitaries in the 1990s, have grown in force since splitting off from the powerful Gulf gang, whom they are now fighting for control of drug trafficking routes.

They are suspected in last week's massacre of 72 migrants in northeast Mexico and many kidnapping, killing and extortion cases.

Cancun has seen sporadic attacks and gruesome discoveries of bodies in wells and graves as violence has escalated since President Felipe Calderon deployed tens of thousands of soldiers to take on organized crime gangs in 2006.

More than 28,000 have died in drug-related violence nationwide since then, according to official figures.


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Please note this was done with molotov cocktails!

Aug 31, 2010

8 people reported killed after gasoline bomb tossed in Cancun bar.

01:17 PM

Eight people have been reported killed after attackers toss gasoline bomb into a bar in the Mexican resort city of Cancun.

Update at 1:22 p.m. ET: The BBC quotes prosecutor Francisco Alor Quesada as telling Diario de Yucatan that the dead included several women working in the bar and two customers.

Update at 1:29 p.m. ET: Quesada says the attackers arrived at the Castillo del Mar bar in a silver pickup truck and a black car.

The newspaper said six people died at the bar, the others died at the hospital.

Diario de Yucatan reports that a man was arrested near the bar earlier this month for allegedly trying to extort protection money from the bar owner.
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