ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 7, 2023 / 16:00 pm
A priest rescued three abandoned children in a Mexican town following a confrontation between crime gangs that left one dead and a Catholic church riddled with bullets.
The church in the small settlement of Santa Anita (population 84) in the Diocese of Tarahumara in Chihuahua state was the scene of the confrontation between the rival gangs. The settlement is located fewer than 125 miles south of Cerocahui, also in Chihuahua, where almost a year ago two Jesuit priests were murdered inside a Catholic church.
Así quedó baleado el templo de la comunidad de Santa Anita, en el municipio de Guachochi, Chihuahua. #AtandoCabos pic.twitter.com/4MtGbrVAsW
— Denise Maerker (@DeniseMaerker) June 6, 2023
According to the Chihuahua state attorney general’s office, at the scene more than 700 bullet casings, a grenade, 19 cartridges, and a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, “completely charred,” were found.