Catholic priest found dead after being kidnapped in western Mexico

A Roman Catholic priest who was kidnapped in western Mexico a week ago has been found shot dead.

Jose Alfredo Lopez is the third priest to be found murdered in Mexico in the past week.

The prosecutor's office said a post-mortem examination showed the priest had been killed several days before his body was found. 

On the same day that he disappeared, the bodies of two other priests who had vanished the day before were found by a roadside in Veracruz.
 
His death brings the number of priests murdered in Mexico since 2012 to 15. 

Mexico has been plagued by years of violence from drug cartels and other organised crime.

BBC