Drug cartel gunmen have ambushed 3 SUV’s along a dirt road in northern Mexico on Monday, slaughtering at least three women and six children, two of which were 8-month-old twins.
All nine people involved in the day time attack were US citizens, and belonged to the extended Mexican-American LeBaron family, members of a breakaway Mormon community that settled in northern Mexico's hills and plains decades ago.
Leaving one of the vehicles completely burned-up and covered in bullets, it is believed that the attackers may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of rival gangs.