Mexican farm group says leader killed

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A Mexican farmworkers leader and 14 people who were apparently his relatives and employees are dead in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora.

Sonora prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga says the victims include farm leader Margarito Montes, 10 other men, one woman and three minors.

Larrinaga said Saturday the victims' bullet-ridden bodies were found on a roadside near a farm. It appears the killers used assault rifles.

The killings occurred Friday in a rural area of the state.

The Permanent Agrarian Council farm group says Montes was ambushed by a gang of gunmen near his home, and called on the government to catch the killers.