Authorities have arrested a municipal police chief for his suspected links to the killing of three women and six children in northern Mexico last month.
shot dead the nine women and children from families of Mormon origin in Sonora state on November 4Several Mexican media outlets reported that law enforcement agents arrested Fidel Alejandro Villegas, police chief of the municipality of Janos, which lies in the neighbouring state of Chihuahua, on suspicion of involvement in the crime.
Mexican officials believe the women and children were killed after becoming caught up in a dispute between local drug cartels battling for control of the area. The cars, filled with their children, had been travelling from the Mormon community of La Mora in the Mexican state of Sonora down to Pancho Villa in Chihuahua.Photographs posted by family members of those murdered in Mexico.The three mums and six of their children — including infant twins — were murdered in the ambush.
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