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Two Jesuit priests killed in Moscow
Oct 29, 2008, 11:01 GMT
Moscow - Two Jesuit priests died of knife wounds in Moscow, Russian news agencies said Wednesday.
Igor Kovalevsky, the general secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, said the priests bodies were found in their central Moscow apartment late Tuesday.
Kovalevsky called the incident a 'brutal murder.'
Police at the scene said the two men had died of blows to the head and knife wounds. Authorities said the motive for the killing was unknown.
News agency Ria-Novosti named the victims as Russian national Otto Messmer, 46, and South American priest Victor Betancourt, 42.
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