Incident occurred in violence-plagued remote mountainous region of Chihuahua, which has strong organized crime presence
Two Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church after a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northernJavier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar were killed on Monday inside the church in Cerocahui, Chihuahua.
Violence has plagued the Tarahumara mountains for years. Cerocahui is near a point where Chihuahua state meets Sonora and Sinaloa, a major drug-producing region.demanded justice and the return of the men’s bodies. It said gunmen had taken them from the church.“Acts like these are not isolated,” the statement said. “The Tarahumara mountains, like many other regions of the country, face conditions of violence and abandonment that have not been reversed.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said during his daily news conference on Tuesday that the priests were apparently killed by gunmen pursuing another man who sought refuge in the church. That man was also killed, the president said. López Obrador said authorities have information about possible suspects in the killings and that the area has a strong organized crime presence.
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