Gunmen killed nine women and children in the bloodiest attack on Americans in Mexico for years, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to offer to help the neighboring country wipe out drug cartels believed to be behind the ambush.
The victims are members of the LeBaron family, linked to a breakaway Mormon community that settled in Mexico several decades ago.
The victims were travelling in a convoy of vehicles.
The security minister said the group could have been targeted accidentally as a result of mistaken identity.
“This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth,” Trump said in a tweet reacting to the massacre.
Later, he and the Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador spoke by phone, with the U.S. president offering help to ensure the perpetrators face justice.
Prior to the call, Lopez Obrador rejected what he called any foreign government intervention.
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