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(CNN Spanish) - Without giving an exact number, the Secretary of Security of Mexico, Alfonso Durazo, said Tuesday that there are already detainees linked to the massacre of the LeBarón family, in which six children died, among others.
Durazo declined to give more information and said that it will be the Attorney General's Office and the State Attorney's Office that will offer more details of the arrests.
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This Monday, Mexico's Foreign Secretary, Marcelo Ebrad, welcomed the FBI to investigate this massacre, but under certain conditions.
According to Ebrad, FBI agents cannot be armed and “cannot carry out procedures” unless it is through the Mexican attorney general, they must be accompanied when they speak with witnesses and they must inform the Government of Mexico of their location.
"We have maintained contact with the LeBarón family and they say that the majority of the family will remain in Mexico," Ebrad added.
On Sunday, the FBI said it would be involved in the investigation of Mexican-American citizens after the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador invited them to "accompany the investigation."
Three women and six children, all of Mormon faith, were shot dead in the mountains on November 4 when alleged drug cartels opened fire on a remote dirt road in the state of Sonora.
The horrible massacre in broad daylight surprised even a country devastated by drug violence and on the way to a record number of homicides this year. The caravan carrying women and children was ambushed and sprayed with hundreds of rounds of ammunition. A mother was shot dead while begging for the children to be saved.
A criminal group known as Los Salazar, in the state of Sonora, exchanged shots with members of La Línea, the armed arm of the Juarez cartel based in Chihuahua. The Line then sent an armed group to prevent its rivals from entering Chihuahua, said General Homero Mendoza, chief of the national defense cabinet of Mexico. Those gunmen could have confused the vehicles of the families with the SUVs of their rivals.
At the state level, Chihuahua's attorney general, César Peniche Espejel, offered another theory: a group of drug traffickers known as Los Jaguares, a branch of the Sinaloa cartel, could have been behind the massacre.