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The killing of Americans in Mexico: a boy saved six brothers and sisters

An 13-year-old boy who survived an armed attack on a Mormon family in Mexico managed to hide six brothers and sisters in the bushes, after which he traveled 23 kilometers to call for help, his relatives said. Writes about it with the BBC.

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The attack, which occurred on Tuesday, November 5, in northern Mexico, killed nine people - six children and three adults. Eight children survived. According to American media reports, five of them received bullet wounds.

The victims were members of the LeBaron family, associated with the Mormon community, which settled in Mexico decades ago.

The Mexican security minister said the Mormon group was attacked by mistake, mistaking them for others. But relatives of the victims claimed that the family had received threats in the past because of their allegations of the brutality of local drug cartels.

In the state of Sonora, two criminal groups are at war - La Linea, associated with the large Juarez cartel, and Los Chapos, part of the Sinaloa cartel.

How did the children manage to escape?

“A convoy of three cars, containing three women with their 14 children, set off from Bavispe in the state of Sonora to La Mora in the neighboring state of Chihuahua. For safety reasons, it was decided to go together,” one of the relatives told CNN.

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“The procession was ambushed in Bavispe. When Devin Langford's mother and two brothers were shot, he hid his six siblings in the bushes and disguised them with branches. The boy then walked six hours to his community in La Mora,” relative Kendra Lee Miller wrote on Facebook.

One of the sisters, nine-year-old Mackenzie, not waiting for her brother to return, left the shelter and walked in the dark for four hours. She was discovered by rescuers.

“A seven-month-old girl, Faith Langford, survived the massacre. Her mother, Christina Langford-Johnson, managed to place the child seat on the floor of the car. Then the woman got out of the car with her hands raised, begging the attackers to stop shooting, but was killed,” said one of the survivors.

“When Devin reached La Mora, members of the community armed themselves to go to the site of the massacre. But then they decided to wait for reinforcements so as not to expose themselves to danger. Incessant gunfire was heard in La Mora for several hours,” Miller wrote.

Faith was found in the car 11 hours after the attack.

The wounded children were taken by helicopter to the American city of Phoenix for treatment. Eight-year-old Cody was shot in the jaw and leg, 14-year-old Kyle was shot in the leg, four-year-old Sander was shot in the back and nine-month-old Brixton was shot in the chest.

Who were the dead?

Five people - 30-year-old Maria Ronita-Miller, her eight-month-old twins Titus and Tiana, 12-year-old Howard and 10-year-old Krystal - died after the explosion of the car, which had previously been subjected to intense fire.

A few kilometers from there, attackers attacked two other cars. Killed 43-year-old Don Langford and her 11-year-old son. Langford-Johnson died while stepping out of another car.

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US President Donald Trump called the victims "wonderful family and friends" caught in a shootout between two brutal drug cartels.

What was the reaction to the slaughter?

Trump said he was ready to help combat the problem of drug cartel violence to "wipe them off the face of the earth."

“If Mexico needs or asks for help getting rid of these monsters, the US is ready and able to step in and get the job done quickly and efficiently,” he tweeted. “We’re just waiting for a call from your great president!”

Later, following a telephone conversation with Trump, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that justice in Mexico is the business of the country's government.

“Through President Trump, I expressed my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the Chihuahua-Sonora border incident. “I thanked him for his willingness to help and informed him that justice was being handled by the Mexican government,” Obrador wrote on Twitter.

Sonora Governor Claudia Pavlovich Arellano called the people responsible for the slaughter monsters.

The cousin of one of the dead women, Julian LeBaron, also demanded to find those responsible.

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“We want to know who was behind this, why they did it, and we want this information to be reliable. We don’t understand who could have attacked the women and children,” he said in an interview with Mexican radio.

What is the community of LeBaron?

All the victims were part of the LeBaron community, which was formed by a breakaway group of Mormons at the beginning of the 20th century, after their church in the USA changed their views on polygamy.

The LeBaron community includes Mormons and Catholics. Its members said that about 3 thousand people live in the community.

According to community member Tiffany Langford, members of the group have different beliefs, but in general they practice fundamentalist Mormonism.

“We are a big family,” Langford told the television station. — We love and support each other, regardless of our individual beliefs. I have never seen such strength of unity and love in such a large family. This is the tragedy of our entire lives.”

Local media believe that cars could be confused with the column of the opposing group.

In 2009, Eric LeBaron was taken hostage, and a ransom was demanded for his return. The community refused to pay for his release, so as not to continue to encourage such abductions.

Eric LeBaron was eventually released, but after a while his brother Benjamin was beaten to death.

In 2010, Julian LeBaron published an article in the Dallas Morning News, calling on Mexican authorities to oppose organized crime.

On Tuesday, commenting on the incident to Mexican radio, he said his family had received threats. “We reported the threats, and these are the consequences,” he said.

Last year, the family had a conflict with local farmers who accused the Mormons of over-using water to grow their walnut trees, which caused nearby farms to water their crops.

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Earlier, the LeBaron family demanded to give her the right to create their own security forces.

How serious is the drug crime problem in Mexico?

The Sinaloa cartel clearly demonstrated its power in October, when members of the group captured the city of Culiacan and entered into street battles with the police. The reason was the detention of the son of drug lord Joaquin Guzman, nicknamed El Chapo, who is serving a life sentence.

Losing strength, the Mexican security forces decided to free Ovidio Guzman Lopez to stop the bloodshed.

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