Five men have been arrested in connection with last week's arson attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, which left 52 people dead.
It is alleged that at least one of the detained men has confessed that the attack was in response to the casino owners’ refusal to pay protection money. Rodrigo Medina, governor of the state of Nuevo Leon, where the city is located, said the suspects were working for the notorious Zetas drug cartel, which has been locked in a bloody battle with rival drug traffickers for control of north-eastern Mexico.
The victims, the majority of them women, were killed when gunmen torched the Casino Royale on Thursday afternoon. Authorities have given conflicting accounts on whether exits were blocked, which would have added to the death toll.
