After burying last victims, some in Mexico's breakaway Mormon community head north


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  • Sunday, 10 Nov 2019

Tyler Johnson, husband of Christina Marie Langford Johnson, who was killed by unknown assailants, holds a child during her funeral service, before a burial at the cemetery in LeBaron, Chihuahua, Mexico November 9, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico (Reuters) - Members of a breakaway Mormon community tucked in the hills of northern Mexico buried the last of their dead on Saturday after a devastating massacre, and some headed for safer ground in the United States.

Hundreds of friends and family from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border gathered in rural Colonia LeBaron to honor Christina Langford, who died in an ambush on Monday that killed nine. Family members say she exited her car with her arms outstretched to signal she was not a gang member - but not before wedging her infant daughter's car seat on the floor of the vehicle.

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