Italian priest shot dead in Philippines
October 20th, 2011 - 5:03 am ICT by IANSVatican City, Oct 20 (IANS/AKI) An Italian priest has been shot dead in the Philippines, the Vatican news agency Fides said.
Police said Fausto Tentorio, 61, was shot dead soon after conducting Mass in the southern Phillippines Monday.
“You deduce from the way the shooting was carried out, from the precision weapons and from the ammunition used that the killer was of a certain level and not an improving criminal,” an unnamed source told Fides.
“It was ordered by someone who wanted to eliminate an enemy,” the Fides source said.
He was killed on the Mindanao island.
Tentorio worked with the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, or PIME, and was head of the Tribal Filipinos Apostolate of the Diocese of Kidapawan, according to a report in local online news site Minda News.
He was the third PIME priest killed in Mindanao.
–IANS/AKI
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