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Municipal police chief arrested over Mexican Mormon massacre
Municipal police chief arrested over Mexican Mormon massacre
Mexican president meets with Mormon massacre victims' families
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met Monday with relatives of nine Mormon women and children who were massacred in northern Mexico last month to discuss progress in the investigation. The November 4 killing of three women and six children from a breakaway Mormon community with dual US-Mexican nationality, caused shock on both sides of the border, and increased pressure on Lopez Obrador’s government to show it is acting against brutal violence by drug cartels. “They presented the progress they’re making in the investigation and the cooperation between Mexico and the United States on the case,” one relative who attended the closed-door meeting, Lenzo Widmar, told AFP.
Mexico massacre unites Mormon sects, even their exiles
After burying last victims, some in Mexico's breakaway Mormon community head north
After burying last victims, some in Mexico's breakaway Mormon community head north
Members of a breakaway Mormon community tucked in the hills of northern Mexico buried the last of their dead on Saturday after a devastating massacre, and some headed for safer ground in the United States. Hundreds of friends and family from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border gathered in rural Colonia LeBaron to honor Christina Langford, who died in an ambush on Monday that killed nine.
Remains of five more victims of Mexican Mormon killings are buried
Rancho La Mora (México) (AFP) – The remains of a Mormon woman and her four children murdered in northern Mexico were taken by road Friday from their home village to be buried in a family plot in Chihuahua state. A convoy of vehicles bearing the coffins of Rhonita Miller and her children left Rancho la Mora, in the border area between Mexico’s violent northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua, for the family’s burial plot in the LeBaron neighborhood in nearby Galeana. Miller and her children died with four other people in a hail of bullets Monday on a rural road in the lawless region.
Why offshoots of the Mormon church fled to Mexico
US victims in Mexico attack from Mormon offshoot community
At least nine American Mormon community members killed in Mexico
At least three women and six children from an American Mormon community in northern Mexico have been killed in an ambush in an area notorious for drug traffickers and bandits, a relative said. The government deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, but experts blame the so-called "drug war" for the spiraling violence between fragmented cartels and the military, which has lead to more than 250,000 murders. Julian Lebaron said his cousin was traveling with her four children to the airport when she was attacked and shot in Rancho de la Mora, an area near the US border.
