{UAH} Body of Ugandan priest found in southern Mexico

Body of Ugandan priest found in southern Mexico mass grave

BY LIZBETH DIAZ AND ANAHI RAMA

IGUALA Mexico Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:17pm EST

The remains of the priest, identified as John Ssenyondo, were dug up about a week ago and identified by the recovered skull as well as dental records. He had been missing since May, the state attorney general's office said.

"It was found in a mass grave with six other bodies," said a spokesperson for the diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, in the troubled southwestern state of Guerrero where the government say the trainee teachers were abducted in late September by corrupt police in league with a drug gang.

 

Ssenyondo was allegedly abducted by armed men after refusing to baptize a girl who was suspected of being the daughter of a local gangster, the spokesperson added.

Ssenyondo had been serving in the mostly indigenous area of Guerrero since 2010.

The state attorney general's office said the priest had been reported missing, but could not confirm that his remains had been identified.

The government has detained more than 70 people in connection with the disappearance of the students from the southwestern city of Iguala.

On Thursday, a judge in Guerrero charged the city's former mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, accused of being the mastermind behind the students' disappearance, with the murder of six people killed in clashes between the trainees, police and masked gunmen on the night of Sept. 26.

(Additional reporting by Dave Graham, writing by David Alire Garcia; editing by Simon Gardner and G Crosse)

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