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Priests gunned down in Jamaica
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/10/28/jamaica.priests.reut/index.html
Friday, October 28, 2005; Posted: 12:16 p.m. EDT (16:16 GMT)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – Two Roman Catholic priests visiting Jamaica for training were shot dead in Kingston after eating dinner with colleagues, police said 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 20s.
Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/10/28/jamaica.priests.reut/index.html
Friday, October 28, 2005; Posted: 12:16 p.m. EDT (16:16 GMT)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – Two Roman Catholic priests visiting Jamaica for training were shot dead in Kingston after eating dinner with colleagues, police said 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 20s.
Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.