Three priests have been kidnapped and killed in Mexico in just a few days, raising the death toll of clergy murdered in the country to 15 in less than four years.
Fr Alejo Nabor Jiménez Juárez and Fr José Alfredo Suárez de la Cruz were dragged at gunpoint out of Our Lady of Fatima parish in Poza Rica, a Gulf Coast oil city in Veracruz state that has been consumed by crime in recent years.
Local media reported that the men were found a day after their abduction. They were left beside a highway with their hands and feet bound. They had been beaten and had gunshot wounds, according to reports.
