Mexico offers $2.4m reward in deadly casino arson that killed 52

Armed assailants burst into the casino Thursday afternoon, swearing and shouting for customers and employees to get out. But many of the terrified victims fled farther inside the building, where they died trapped amid the flames and thick smoke that soon billowed out of the building.

The Mexican government is offering a $2.4 million reward for information leading to the assailants who set fire to a casino in northern Mexico, killing 52 people.

The Attorney General's Office says in a statement that Calderon instructed authorities to offer the reward to find those responsible for what he called "an act of barbarism."

Calderon described the incident as the worst attack on innocent civilians in recent memory.
"We are not talking about an accident," he said in a televised nationwide address. "We are talking about true terrorists who have gone beyond all limits."

Meanwhile, the Mexican government is offering a $2.4 million reward for information leading to the assailants who set fire to the casino.