Mass murder of Mormons in Mexico

'You need an army to defeat an army': President Trump wages WAR on Mexican drug cartels to 'wipeout monsters' after three American Mormon mothers and six of their children are EXECUTED and their bodies left in burned out SUVs

• At least nine U.S. citizens, including six children, who live in the Mexican border state of Sonora were killed in a shooting attack Monday 
• Rhonita Maria LeBaron, died along with her 6-month-old twins and her two other children, aged 10 and 12  
• Christina Langford Johnson, Dawna Langford and two of Dawna's children, aged 11 and three, were also killed
• The victims belong to the LeBaron family - a breakaway Mormon community that settled in the hills of northern Mexico decades ago 
• At the time of the attack, 17 of the family members were traveling in three cars from the settlement 
• According to relatives, drug cartel gunman opened fire and torched vehicles as the victims burned to death 
• Mexico's top security official Alfonso Durazo said on Tuesday cartel gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs 
• Nine of the family members were slaughtered in the massacre and one child was still missing 
• Six children were wounded in the attack and five have since been transferred to hospitals in Phoenix, Arizona 

By KAYLA BRANTLEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM  and SOPHIE LAW FOR MAILONLINE and ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 22:14 EST, 4 November 2019 | UPDATED: 09:58 EST, 5 November 2019 

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