Child survivors of massacred family spent 10 hours hiding in Mexican hills.

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Devin Langford, 13, hid his six surviving siblings while he walked 23km to get help after gunmen killed nine close relatives.

Bullet-riddled vehicles that members of the extended LeBarón family were travelling in sit parked on a dirt road near Bavispe, at the Sonora-Chihuahua state border, Mexico, on Wednesday. Photograph: Christian Chavez/AP
▼ Alone on a remote mountain road after witnessing the slaughter of nine close relatives, the wounded children who had survived a cartel ambush in northern Mexicothen endured 10 hours hiding in the barren landscape as they waited for help.
One of the survivors, 13-year-old Devin Langford, hid his six surviving siblings in bushes near the road, and set out walking to raise the alarm.
But when he failed to return – and with night drawing over the mountainside – his nine-year-old sister McKenzie, headed into the wilds in search of him – even though she had been shot in the wrist.
Shocking new details of the  attack in which three wom en  and six children were killedemerged on Wednesday, making plain the horror unleashed on the Mexican-American Mormon family – and piling fresh pressure on Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to confront organized crime.
“Our cry for help is being listened to now,” Adrián LeBarón, father of Rhonita LeBarón and grandfather of four of the children killed, told the Televisa network on Wednesday. “My feeling, though, is that if we hadn’t gone to the place it happened – if we hadn’t shouted and talked – then the bodies would still be there.”
LeBarón was speaking from the community of La Mora near the border between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua where he was preparing funeral services for the murdered members of the family who mostly belong to a breakaway branch of the Mormon religion.
The three women and their 14 children from the Langford, Miller and Johnson families were traveling in three SUVs from a small village in Sonora to meet relatives in neighboring Chihuahua state.
LeBarón’s daughter and her four children were all in a Chevrolet Tahoe which was attacked at 9.40am on Monday, the Mexican army’s chief of staff said on Wednesday.

Members of the LeBarón family look at the burned car where some of the nine murdered relatives were killed during the ambush. Photograph: Hérika Martínez/AFP via Getty Images
Gen Héctor Mendoza said all five were killed immediately and the vehicle burst into flames. The two other vehicles were attacked 18 kilometers up the unpaved road at around 11am.
Lafe Langford – a relative of the victims – told CNN that (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Such a horrific incident....!!

culsivaji

These things have happened to people throughout Mexico for years, and they’ve never had the voice or support that we have