Mexican authorities search for bodies, missing tourists after priests killed in church


  • World
  • Wednesday, 22 Jun 2022

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Tuesday that they are searching for the bodies of three people, including two Jesuit priests, as well as four people who were kidnapped in a violent stretch of northern Mexico.

The state prosecutor's office in Chihuahua, along the U.S. border, said in a statement that it received a report on Monday that three people were killed in the town of Cerocahui after a man took refuge in a church to protect himself from an attack.

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