Mexico offers reward for casino killers
Mexico offered a reward Friday of $2.4 million for information leading to the arrest of armed men who torched a casino, leaving 52 people to burn and choke to death in a blazing inferno.
The particularly callous attack on Thursday shocked a nation already used to grim murders and high tolls in a drug war that has claimed more than 41,000 lives since a military crackdown began in 2006.
Addressing the nation from his official Los Pinos residence, President Felipe Calderon condemned the "abhorrent and barbaric" assault, declared three days of national mourning, and vowed the drug gangs would never win.
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