Mexico bomb attack kills three children

MEXICO: Three young children were killed Thursday in Mexico's most violent city, on the US border, after attackers threw a Molotov cocktail into their house, their mother told officials.

"They threw the Molotov cocktail through the window that faces the street," the mother of the children - aged four, three, and one years old - told investigators.

She was inside the house at the time of the attack, but authorities said she managed to escape the blaze with her hair and clothes on fire. Her husband was at work when the attack took place, officials said.

Firefighters have so far found the bodies of two children in the house, both underneath a bed.

Ciudad Juarez is considered the most violent city in Mexico, with more than 3,100 homicides last year. Most of the violence is blamed on drug cartels who fight for control of lucrative drug routes into the United States.

Nationwide the drug war has claimed the lives of over 34,600 people over four years.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Friday, AFP