Extreme acts of violence in Mexico are on the rise: 25 burned to death at a strip club
by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Aug 28, 2019
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - The assailants locked the doors and emergency exits. Then they doused the strip club with gasoline and set it on fire.
The inferno that engulfed the White Horse bar in southern Mexico Tuesday night killed 25 people and injured more than a dozen others. Photos taken after the flames were extinguished showed the bodies of semi-nude women strewn amid charred bar stools.
The dramatic attack, which took place in the Gulf Coast city of Coatzacoalcos, was likely an act of retaliation after the bar's owner refused to let a
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