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Members of Jesuit Order killed in Moscow

Moscow, October 29, Interfax - Two members of the Jesuit Order have been killed in central Moscow, sources in the law enforcement agencies told Interfax.

"At 9:20 p.m. on October 28, the chief accountant of the religious organization Society of Jesus called on the police. He said he had found the bodies of two members of the organization - a 42 year-old Ecuadorian and a 46 year-old Russian in an apartment located at Petrovka, 19, building 5, which is owned by the religious organization," a source told Interfax.

The law enforcement officers and experts who came to the scene found that the two men had died of head injuries. A criminal case has been opened. The Russian Orthodox Church has extended its condolences in connection with the killing. "I would like to extend my condolences to the administration of Russian Catholics and the Russian office of the Jesuit Order," the Priest Igor Vyzhanov, secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, told Interfax-Religion on Wednesday. Fr. Igor said he is hoping this case will be duly investigated by the public bodies

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