“A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing,” Trump wrote. Police found a total of about 200 spent shell casings from assault rifles and other weapons at the various crime scenes. Farther on, they found a second Suburban and, about 15 yards (meters) away, the body of a woman. About 11 miles (18 kilometers) up the mountainous dirt road, they found a Suburban with a dead woman and two dead children inside. They said police first found the burned-out Chevy Tahoe with the five dead. The prosecutor’s office in Sonora state gave a description of the crime scene on the Sonora-Chihuahua border. READ MORE: Trump administration is promising a ‘new’ border wall. Two weeks ago, Mexican forces seized a son of the imprisoned drug lord known as El Chapo but had to release him after cartel henchmen launched a furious counterattack in Culiacan, Sinaloa. It was the second failure in recent weeks for López Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” anti-crime strategy. “The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!īut Mexico’s president said: “The worst thing you can have is war.” “The United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively,” Trump tweeted. The six children killed were 8 months old, 2½, 10, 11 and 12, according to family members. Two women and two other children were later found dead. “The mafia vehicles got her and four of her kids and … burnt them to a crisp,” said the relative. Authorities said the Chevy Tahoe’s gas tank had apparently been hit by gunfire and exploded. The relative said he had located the burned-out SUV containing the remains of his nephew’s wife and her four children - the twin babies and two other children. The relative asked not to be named for fear of reprisals. The group was attacked Monday while traveling in a convoy of three SUVs toward Pancho Villa, in Chihuhua. MORE: Behind the record number of children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border this year

While some of the splinter groups were once polygamous, many no longer are. Many members were born in Mexico and thus have dual citizenship. A number of extended Mormon families live in farming communities clustered around the Chihuahua-Sonora state border. In a tweet, President Donald Trump immediately offered to help Mexico “wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.” But Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected that approach, saying his predecessors waged war, “and it didn’t work.”Ī relative said the victims lived in the hamlet of La Mora in Sonora state, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of Douglas, Arizona. The mafia vehicles got her and four of her kids and … burnt them to a crisp

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