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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Massacre of U.S. citizens puts spotlight on Mormon community with deep roots in Mexico

Mormon attack
Members of the LeBaron family mourn alongside the burned car where some of the nine murdered members of the family were killed during an attack in the Sonora mountains, Mexico, on Tuesday.
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The roadside killings of nine U.S. citizens in northern Mexico has brought renewed attention to the scattered communities of Mormons who settled in the country more than a century ago to escape persecution.
The three women and 14 children whom assailants ambushed Monday as they drove toward Arizona from the town of Bavispe in Sonora state included descendants of a fundamentalist Mormon community that has lived in the country for decades.
Early Wednesday, criminal investigators in northern Mexico said a suspect had been arrested and was under investigation for possible connections with the deaths. A Mexican official had earlier said the killers might have mistaken the family for members of a rival drug cartel.

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