CUAUTITLAN, Mexico — 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 Thursday.

Two people allegedly linked to the homicide have been arrested.

Rev. Ernesto Baltazar Hernández Vilchis, 43, disappeared in Tultepec, north of Mexico City on Oct. 27. His body was found Wednesday about 9 miles (15 kilometers) away and authorities are investigating the homicide, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Priests are sometimes victims of organized 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

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