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With military escorts, grieving families from Utah make their way into Mexico for funerals of slain loved ones

Agua Prieta, Mexico • Not even mourning is easy for the family of the nine women and children with Utah ties killed in this week’s violence in northern Mexico.

Relatives drove from as far away as the Beehive State on Wednesday to visit the surviving children in a hospital in Tucson, Ariz., and then to attend the funerals later this week in the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua.

Rebecca Langford of Vineyard is a sister-in-law to Dawna Langford, who died with two of her sons Monday. Rebecca Langford stopped in Tucson to visit some of her five nieces and nephews who survived the attack.