The body of a missing priest has been found wrapped in plastic and tied to a chair in a canal.
Reverend Ernesto Baltazar Hernández Vilchis, 40, vanished without a trace in Tultepec, just north of Mexico City, on October 27.
His remains were found in a drainage canal that runs close to Felipe Ángeles International Airport on Wednesday.
Search and rescue teams carried out searches in the area where they found the remains, although they were said to have been in an advanced state of decay.
After removing the remains from the canal, forensics later confirmed the remains were those of Rev. Vilchis.
Mexican network Telediario said the body was wrapped in black bags and then tied to an armchair. The remains had later become stuck in a small mound of earth in the drainage canal.
Rev. Vilchis had recently been assigned to the Tultepec area and was last seen in the town of Ampliación La Piedad. After he went missing, the Diocese that assigned him to the region filed a report with authorities.
He had served in numerous churches before his assignment to Tultepec. Officers are carrying out an investigation into the death and have vowed to apprehend those responsible.
While the perpetrators are unknown at this time, priests have sometimes been targeted by cartels in Mexico. Last month, the body of a priest was found in the mountains of the southern state of Guerrero.
The church's Catholic Multimedia Centre, which tracks attacks on priests, said 10 priests were killed in Mexico between 2019 and 2024. Violence on public figures had been readily documented in Mexico.
Earlier this month, Mayor Carlos Manzo, 40, of Uruapan, was fatally gunned down by two armed men when he was out celebrating the Day of the Dead with members of the public.
The firebrand mayor had become famous over his stance against cartels.
Manzo made provocative statements that cartel members should be beaten into submission or even killed.
He also suggested "brute force" was needed to tackle the criminal networks in the avocado-growing region.
President Sheinbaum previously said in a statement following the assassination: " I condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo. I express my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones, as well as to the people of Uruapan, for this irreparable loss."