The body of a priest reported missing in late October outside Mexico City has been found wrapped in plastic and tied to a chair in a river, the Mexico state prosecutor's office said today.

Two people allegedly linked to the homicide have been arrested.

Reverend Ernesto Baltazar Hernández Vilchis, 43, disappeared in Tultepec, north of Mexico City on October 27. His body was found Wednesday about 15km away and authorities are investigating the homicide, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Priests are sometimes victims of organised crime in Mexico.

Last month, the body of a priest was found in the mountains of the southern state of Guerrero.

Hernández Vilchis arrived at the parish of Santa Cruz Cantera, in Tultepec, in early October, according to the church's Facebook page

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