A missing priest was found dead, a gunshot wound to the head, in an area of southern Guerrero state dominated by drug cartels, his diocese said Friday. The slaying of the Rev. Gregorio Lopez Gorostieta is the latest in series of abductions, attacks and highway robberies against Roman Catholic clerics in the region.
He is the third Catholic priest to have been killed this year, and the first to die since the federal government launched a special, stepped-up security operation in the area following the disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students three months ago.
The motive in Lopez Gorostieta’s killing remains unclear; Bishop Maximino Martinez said a group had been seen lurking around the seminary where the priest taught on the outskirts of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, on Sunday and Monday. Lopez Gorostieta was apparently kidnapped by the gang early Monday; his truck was found abandoned two days later.
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