Two Priests Murdered In Mexico After Kidnapping
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published September 20, 2016 | 10:55 AM
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -20th Sept,2016) : Two priests were found dead in eastern Mexico on Monday hours after they were kidnapped from their church, raising the number of Catholic clergymen killed in the country to 14 since 2012.
The priests were abducted by gunmen on Sunday from the church in Poza Rica, in the crime-plagued state of Veracruz, said Father Jose Alberto Guerrero, a local spokesman for the bishops' conference in Teziutlan, Puebla state, where the victims were based. "They took the two priests by force," Guerrero told AFP. APP/AFP/anm
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