Mexico City, Mexico, Jun 16, 2009 / 10:04 am
Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco of Acapulco, Mexico has confirmed that one priest and two seminarians were killed last week in the city of Altamirano in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
According to the newspaper “Milenio,” Archbishop Aguirre said during a press conference that Father Habacuc Hernandez Benitez, and seminarians Eduardo Oregon Benitez and Silvestre Gonzalez Cambron, were on their way to a vocations meeting when assailants fired upon their vehicle.
“Right now we don’t know exactly what happened. We assume that they saw that they were young people, there was a confrontation and they were driving in their car and didn’t stop,” the archbishop said.
He said officials from the four surrounding dioceses would be meeting on Monday and Tuesday of this week and that afterwards a statement would be issued.