A Mexican Catholic priest was killed on Sunday in the southern state of Chiapas after officiating a mass, his religious order and authorities said, marking the latest death in a recent wave of violence in the area.
Marcelo Perez - who was Tzotzil, an Indigenous Maya group native to the area - was leaving the neighborhood of Cuxtitali in San Cristobal de las Casas, one of the state's largest cities, and returning to his home church nearby when he was killed, the Jesuits in Mexico said in a statement.
Two people on a motorcycle came up to his car, a white Ford, and shot him, according to state prosecutors.
Mexico has seen a streak of murders in the past few weeks, including the beheading of the mayor of the state capital of Guerrero and an intra-cartel war in Sinaloa, which has left hundreds dead or missing, bringing calls for newly inaugurated President Claudia Sheinbaum to take swift action to stamp out crime.
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