Venezuela arrest over priest slayings

Venezuelan police say they have arrested one teenager and are seeking another over the slaying of a 79-year-old priest and an 84-year-old lay worker.

Venezuelan police say they have arrested a teenager and are seeking another for the slaying of a 79-year-old priest and an 84-year-old lay worker in the city of Valencia.

Judicial police director Jose Gregorio Sierralta says the youths regularly went to the Don Bosco school for sports activities, and had stayed inside on Saturday before allegedly stabbing the two elderly men, as well as another priest who survived.

The Salesian school's director, Reverend Fernando Santana, says the youths took mobile phones, computers and money before killing the religious workers.

A 17-year-old was arrested the next day and a 14-year-old was being sought on Monday.


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