Photos: Mormon colonists cross back to the U.S. after they bury nine killed on Monday
Members of the Mormon colony at La Mora, Mexico, came back to the United States nearly a week after an attack Monday in which nine women and children were killed by what authorities said were people from drug cartels.
Funerals for the nine killed have taken place in the last three days.
The families had lived in two hamlets in Mexico's Sonora state: La Mora and Colonia LeBaron.
The attack occurred as the women traveled with their children to visit relatives.
Other residents of the hamlets planned to depart in the coming days. – Associated Press
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CORRECTS RELATION TO DAWNA - David Langford is consoled during the funeral service for his wife Dawna Ray and their two sons, in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, Dawna Ray Langford and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, were laid to rest in a single grave at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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Family and friends attend a funeral service to remember Christina Langford Johnson the last victim of a cartel ambush that killed nine American women and children earlier this week, in Colonia Le Baron, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. In the attack Monday, Langford Johnson jumped out of her vehicle and waved her hands to show she was no threat to the attackers and was shot twice in the heart, community members say. Her daughter Faith Marie Johnson, 7 months old, was found unharmed in her car seat. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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Family and friends walk in a procession to the cemetery in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, for a burial for Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed in an ambush earlier this week. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, the three were laid to rest in a single grave at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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Family photos and flowers adorn the coffins that contain the remains of Rhonita Miller and her four children victims of a drug cartel ambush that left three women and six children dead, during their wake in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard earlier in the day, Dawna Ray Langford and her two sons were laid to rest together, just as they died together Monday when attackers fired a hail of bullets at their SUV. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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Family and friends weep during the funeral service for Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed in an ambush earlier this week, in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, the three were laid to rest in a single grave at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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Women embrace during the funeral service for Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed in an ambush earlier this week, in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, the three were laid to rest in a single grave at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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A woman holding an infant stands near the coffins that contain the remains of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, during their funeral service in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, Dawna Ray and her two sons were laid to rest in a single grave Thursday at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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People attend the funeral of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed in an ambush earlier this week, in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, the three were laid to rest in a single grave at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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Cole Langford, left, and Hayden Spenct, of the Mormon colony in La Mora, Mexico hug during a rendezvous in a gas station, Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 9, 2019, after about 100 members crossed back into the United States to flee the violence.
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Bryce Langford talks about the death of several of his family in the Mormon colony of La Mora, Mexico during a rendezvous in a gas station, Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 9, 2019, after about 100 members crossed back into the United States to flee the violence.
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Members of the Mormon colony from La Mora Mexico, greet each other during a rendezvous in a gas station, Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 9, 2019, after about 100 members crossed back into the United States to flee the violence.
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This combination of frames from Nov. 4, 2019, video by Kenny Miller and posted on the Twitter account of Alex LeBaron shows two views of a burned-out vehicle that was being used by some members of the LeBaron family as they were driving in a convoy near the Sonora-Chihuahua border in Mexico. Mexican authorities say drug cartel gunmen ambushed multiple vehicles, including this one, slaughtering several women and children. (Kenny Miller/Courtesy of Alex LeBaron via AP)
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Heavily armed Mexican authorities guard a caravan of friends and relatives of the LeBaron family as they arrive at the site where nine U.S. citizens, three women and six children related to the extended LeBaron family, were slaughtered when cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road near Bavispe, at the Sonora-Chihuahua border, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov 6, 2019. Three women and six of their children, related to the extended LeBaron family, were gunned down in an attack while traveling along Mexico's Chihuahua and Sonora state border on Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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A forensic investigator walks the site where nine U.S. citizens, three women and six children related to the extended LeBaron family, were slaughtered when cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road near Bavispe, at the Sonora-Chihuahua border, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov 6, 2019. Three women and six of their children, related to the extended LeBaron family, were gunned down in an attack while traveling along Mexico's Chihuahua and Sonora state border on Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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Mexican military patrol in La Mora, Sonora state, Mexico, the community where people are holding the funeral for Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed by drug cartel gunmen, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Three women and six of their children, all members of the extended LeBaron family, died when they were gunned down in an attack while traveling along Mexico's Chihuahua and Sonora state border on Monday. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
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A boy pauses as he speaks next to the coffins of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed by drug cartel gunmen, during the funeral at a family cemetery in La Mora, Sonora state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Three women and six of their children, all members of the extended LeBaron family, died when they were gunned down in an attack while traveling along Mexico's Chihuahua and Sonora state border on Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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A daughter of Dawna Langford who survived an ambush earlier this week, is carried by an unidentified man during a memorial service for her mother and two brothers, at a cemetery in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, were laid to rest in a single grave dug at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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Family and friends carry the coffins that contain the remains of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed in an ambush earlier this week, to a small cemetery in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As Mexican soldiers stood guard, the three were laid to rest in a single grave at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Mexico Border Killings, La Mora Colony
Mexican soldiers stand guard as Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, are laid to rest at a family cemetery in La Mora, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. The three were laid to rest in a single grave Thursday, the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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