Salvador police say missing magazine journalist found slain

AP  |  San Salvador 

Authorities in say a has been kidnapped and killed in the gang-plagued Central American nation.

The newspaper reports that her husband told police that he and their son left her resting at home around 12:30 pm (local time) on Saturday. It says that when they returned, Turcios had disappeared and did not answer her cellphone or respond to messages.

The 33-year-old journalist's body was found hours later on a highway northeast of the Salvadoran capital, San

Roman Catholic Jose Luis Escobar Alas called the killing "a very grave attack against society.

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First Published: Mon, April 16 2018. 03:40 IST