A baby named Faith survived the Mexico ambush killings. Her slain mother may have saved her

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(CNN)The carnage was truthful horrific, household members didn't admit the remains of 9 relatives.

"All they recovered was charred remains, ash and bones," household subordinate Kendra Lee Miller said. "There were remains wrong and extracurricular of the vehicle."

Yet wrong a torched car riddled with slug holes, a tiny motion of beingness emerged.

A 7-month-old babe -- aptly named Faith -- was alive. She survived a grisly ambush onslaught successful Mexico that killed her parent and 8 relatives arsenic their caravan of cars was headed to spot different household members Monday.

7-month-old Faith Marie Johnson survived depsite the gunshots and occurrence each astir her.

In this remote, mountainous portion of bluish Mexico, extended household members recovered the horrific country earlier authorities did.

After 'bullets rained from above,' kid survivors of the Mexico ambush tried to prevention each other

"When we opened the rider door, determination was a car spot determination with a slug spread done the canopy of the car spot and 2 slug holes done the bottommost of the car seat," said comparative Julián LeBarón, who was the archetypal to find Faith.

He said Faith "sat successful that car spot for implicit 9 hours erstwhile we recovered her."

But Faith's mother, Christina Marie Langford Johnson, didn't survive.

"She was conscionable laying connected the crushed erstwhile we recovered her," LeBarón said. "I tin archer from the bloodstains that they aimed for her heart."

These are the mothers and their children massacred successful Mexico

Moments earlier she was killed, Langford Johnson seemingly hid her babe girl connected the level of the backmost seat. That's however Faith was capable to survive, Miller said.

As relatives successful some the US and Mexico grieve the nonaccomplishment of 3 mothers and six of their children, the household is grateful that different children survived -- including immoderate who walked for hours trying to prevention each other.

"It's a occurrence immoderate of them are alive," Willie Jessop said. "Only God knows however they tin here's truthful overmuch carnage and truthful overmuch harm to the vehicles and to their bodies and person them inactive beryllium alive."

CNN's Matt Rivers and Gary Tuchman contributed to this report.

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