Overview

• Firefighters contained the blaze at the Uniflor flower market after nightfall, with on-site reports confirming five stalls burned and earlier municipal actions having clausured more than 30 stands.
• The municipality’s enforcement operation followed inspections and a closure order, and the effort to remove merchandise escalated into disturbances inside the market.
• Vendors report confrontations with police, saying some people were trapped and several injured during the turmoil, while their attorney Edgar Hinojosa estimated seven to eight wounded.
• Merchants accuse hired aggressors linked to a supposed buyer of setting the fire, as a dispute over land ownership and municipal authority intensifies.
• Police secured the area as firefighters wrapped operations, and both criminal and administrative inquiries are pending alongside merchants’ plans for legal action and demands for redress.