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Two Catholic priests shot dead in Jamaica
28 Oct 2005 16:10:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
Catholic priests visiting Jamaica for training were shot dead in Kingston after eating dinner with colleagues, police said on Friday.
The priests, from India and the Philippines, were shot through a kitchen window at the Missionaries of the Poor facility in downtown Kingston. The killings pushed the murder toll in Jamaica, a Caribbean country of 2.7 million people, to 1,382 for the year.
"Five brothers were washing dishes in the kitchen after just finishing dinner, when two bullets went through the heads of the two brothers. It was terrible," Father Richard HoLung, head of the Missionaries of the Poor in Jamaica, told reporters.
Police identified the slain priests as Suresh Barwa from India and Marco Laspuna from the Philippines. Both were said to be in their twenties.
Police were looking into reports that the missionaries were killed after they had seen a crime being committed days earlier. Detectives said that neither of the two had reported any crime to the police.
Jamaica has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world. Local business leaders have pleaded with politicians to take steps to curb violent crime, which has damaged the island's important tourism industry.