US Mormons flee Mexico for Arizona after nine killed in ‘massacre’ by drug cartels
US Mormons who re-settled in Mexico are fleeing the country after a “massacre” by drug cartels that left nine women and children dead.
(Yahoo, Nov 10,2019): Around 100 members of the religious community packed up their belongings and are travelling north in an 18-vehicle caravan, with more expected to follow.
They are leaving the site their ancestors settled in nearly 70 years ago after an ambush on the LeBaron Mormon family .
Three cars were shot at and one was set on fire, survivors said, as they travelled along a dirt road in northern Mexico earlier this week.
Family member Julian LeBaron described the attack as a “massacre”, saying some of those targeted were burnt alive.
A 13-year-old boy escaped , walking 14 miles in six hours, to break the news to others in the hamlet of La Mora where he lived.
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Seven other children survived, despite most of them being shot – including in the face, back and foot.
The victims were identified by a relative as Christina Marie Langford Johnson, 29; Dawna Langford, 43; Trevor Langford, 11, and two-and-a-half year old Rogan Langford.
Others killed were Rhonita Miller, 30; Howard Miller, 12; Krystal Miller, 10; and eight-month-old twins Titus and Tiana Miller. The five were all shot and burned in their vehicle.
The spread-out Mormon community moved to Mexico in the 1950s, after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints denounced polygamy, forcing some followers in the US with multiple wives to move elsewhere.
It has 16 million members worldwide.