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A Molotov cocktail attack at a nightclub in Mexico has claimed the lives of 23 people.
A further 13 were left seriously injured following the fire bombing at the Caballo Blanco bar in Coatzacoalcos.
Eight woman and 15 men were killed in the attack, which saw numerous incendiary missiles thrown, eluniversal.com reported.
A photo of the bar taken after the attack shows widespread fire damage.
The local prosecutor's office requested assistance from the national Offices of the Attorney General of the Republic to investigate the crime.
"The State Attorney General's Office will vent all the necessary investigative acts to establish, in the first place, if the events occurred are the results of a malicious attack, to ensure that the events do not go unpunished, deploying all the human, technical and material resources that are necessary," the prosecutors office's said in a statement.