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Two elderly Jesuit priests were killed inside a church where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch said on Tuesday.
Javier Campos, 79, and Joaquin Mora, 80, were on Monday slain inside the church in Cerocahui in Chihuahua state.
They were apparently killed after a man fleeing a drug gang took refuge in the church, authorities said.
The gang apparently pursued and caught him, and killed all three.
Chihuahua Governor Maria Campos said a third man was killed, without identifying him, but Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said during
Two Jesuit priests were killed in Ceroachui, Mexico, on June 20, as they tried to protect a man who had rushed into a church for protection as he was being chased by an armed assailant.