At least 5 United States of America citizens have been killed in an attack suspected to have been carried out by members of a drug cartel.
According to the New York Times, the 5, a mother and his 4 children, were identified as members of the LeBaron family, linked to a splinter group of the Mormon community.
A chilling video of the scene shows a smouldering car with fears expressed that the occupants may have been burned alive.
Members of the LeBaron family said that the victims had been travelling in a convoy of cars from Bavispe in Sonora state and were on their way to La Mora in a neighbouring state.
Those in the cars, according to the LeBaron family members, were Rhonita Miller LeBaron and her four children: six-month-old twins, an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old.
It was not immediately clear what the motive of the attack on the convoy was.
Mexico is plagued by drug cartels that continue to pose a serious risk to national security.
Kenny LeBaron, a cousin of the women who was driving the targeted cars expressed fear that the death toll could rise.
“When you know there are babies tied in a car seat that are burning because of some twisted evil that’s in this world,” LeBarón said as quoted by BBC adding that, “it’s just hard to cope with that.”
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