Relatives of women and children who were slaughtered by Mexican drug cartel henchmen gathered in mourning on Thursday as the first funerals for victims of the ambush got underway. The six children and three women killed on Monday were all members of the extended LeBaron family who live in the remote farming community of La Mora, where many residents with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship consider themselves Mormon but are not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Clad in suits or modest dresses, hundreds embraced in grief under white tents erected in the hamlet as a mother and her two sons were the first to be laid to rest. Members of the extended community had built the coffins themselves and used shovels to dig a single, large grave for the three in the rocky soil of La Mora's small cemetery.
Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, were killed in the attack after a hail of bullets struck their SUV on a dirt road leading to another settlement, Colonia LeBaron.
The other six victims are expected to be buried later.
The hamlet of La Mora is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of the Arizona border, where American-style frame houses alternate with barns and orchards to dot the landscape.
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