Relatives of massacre victims torn over future in Mexico as most flee

Soldiers are seen previos to the arrival of Mexican president Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador to the Mormon community in La Mora, Sonora, Mexico January 11, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

LA MORA, Mexico (Reuters) - Two months after tragedy struck, beefed-up security has helped calm the holdout residents of a tight-knit community of U.S.-Mexican families of Mormon origin. But with only a few families staying put, at least one village is being hollowed out.

The gangland ambush by cartel gunmen in November on a dusty road in northern Mexico left three mothers and six children dead, their charred vehicles riddled with bullets, and a once-strong faith deeply shaken in the picturesque hamlets the families have called home for generations.