Authorities are looking for 12 others who may have taken part in the attack, De la Garza Santos said. Of the 52 people who died, 42 were women, most of them elderly. Thursday's deadly attack was carried out in retaliation against the casino's owners for not paying extortion money, say investigators.Īdrián Emilio de la Garza Santos, Mexico's attorney general, said some of the five helped block the roads with their vehicles while other members set off the blaze at the Casino Royale on the northern city's busy San Jerónimo avenue.
Mexican authorities on Tuesday presented to the press the five arrested Zeta drug cartel members who have reportedly confessed to participating in last week's arson attack at a casino in Monterrey in which 52 people were killed.
