9 US citizens — including 6 children — killed in attack in northern Mexico
by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Nov 05, 2019
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - Nine American citizens were killed Monday when their vehicles were ambushed by gunmen in northern Mexico, officials said Tuesday.
The victims - three women and six children - were members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that has been based for many decades in a remote stretch of Mexico about 150 miles southwest of El Paso, Texas.
At a news conference Tuesday morning, Mexican Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said the group was ambushed by unknown assailants
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