Protesters Burn Town Hall in State of Veracruz After Priest Vanishes Agence France-Presse
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A police car burns in flames at Catemaco community in Veracruz, Mexico on November 12, 2016, during a protest after priest Jose Luis Sanchez disappeared. (Eduardo Murillo/AFP)

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Townspeople angry over the feared kidnapping of a priest set fire inside an eastern Mexican town’s municipal building on Saturday, weeks after two other clerics were killed in the same state.

Dozens of protesters had stormed the town hall in Catemaco earlier on Saturday and returned in the evening to burn part of it, demanding that the Roman Catholic priest be found alive. They also torched a police car.

Catemaco is in the eastern state of Veracruz, a region plagued by drug cartel violence.

“Seeing that there were no results in the investigation, they tossed fuel and set fire tonight in the municipal palace of Catemaco,” Father Aaron Reyes, spokesman for the diocese of San Andres Tuxtla, told reporters.

Reyes said the protesters are not linked to the church and used the priest’s disappearance as a motive to protest.

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