The journey was meant to end with a wedding. Fourteen children and their three mothers set out on Monday, driving from their ranch in the northern Mexican borderlands to the neighbouring state of Chihuahua, in preparation for the party.
It ended not in celebration but in catastrophe.
The group of Mormons, with dual US-Mexican citizenship, drove into an ambush, gunned down by drug cartels from high up in the hills surrounding the desert road. Their bodies were burnt in their cars. Of the 14 children who set out, six would not return – and neither would the three adult women.
The surviving eight children witnessed unspeakable horrors – only to then spend agonising hours waiting for help.
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