Investigators said on Tuesday that two priests who were killed in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz knew their attackers and had been drinking with them, a claim that was rejected by some parishioners.
State prosecutor Luis Angel Bravo said the get-together with the attackers "broke down and turned violent," and that "after the violence came the robbery" of church collection money and some vehicles.
The bullet-riddled bodies of Fr Alejo Nabor Jimenez and Fr Alfredo Suarez de la Cruz were found on a roadside Monday. Bravo did not say how many attackers there were, but his office said earlier that one suspect had been identified.
