MEMBERS of the murderous MS-13 gang have been charged with seven murders in Long Island - including the grisly killings of three high school students.

The 13 alleged gang members - ten of whom are illegal immigrants - face seven murder charges, racketeering, attempted murder, assault, obstruction of justice and arson.

4 Law enforcement officers take one of the suspected MS-13 gang members into custody last night Credit: AP:Associated Press

Two of the victims were best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, who attended Brentwood High School in Suffolk County, in New York City.

The girls were beaten to death with baseball bats and chopped with machetes after they went for a walk together on September 12.

Their bodies were found dumped over the next few days.

Robert L. Capers, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told the New York Times how Kayla had been “feuding” with gang members at school and on social media.

4 Tragedy ...Nisa Mickens was badly beaten along with her friend Kayla Cuevas Credit: Facebook

4 Kayla Cuevas was only 16 when she was murdered Credit: Facebook

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Kayla and her pal Nisa were simply “at the wrong place at the wrong time”.

They had been walking along the street at around 8.30pm when Selvin Chavez and Enrique Portillo, both 19, along with two juvenile gang members, were cruising in a car, Mr Capers said.

The MS-13 members were said to have spotted the girls and called the Saenz brothers who reportedly gave the order to kill them.

4 A poster offers a $15,000 (£12,000) reward for help leading to the arrest of killers of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas Credit: AP:Associated Press

They attacked Nisa first, beating her so brutally with baseball bats and machetes that her body was unrecognisable.

Kayla 'ran for her life' and even made it into the nearby woods before the gang members caught up with her and murdered her.

The arrested come after two other alleged MS-13 gang members laughed and waved in court as they stood accused of kidnapping and torturing a teenage girl and killing a woman in a Satanic ritual after she insulted their demon god.

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