CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic priest attached to Mother Teresa`s missionary order and two other men have been found murdered in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, one of the priest`s colleagues said on Wednesday. "Brother Luke`s body was dug up yesterday and he was formally buried today after the rituals," Brother Raju of the Missionaries of Charity told Reuters in the West Bengal state capital of Calcutta. Mother Teresa, whose world-renowned services to the poor began in the poverty-stricken city of Calcutta, died at the age of 87 five months ago. Raju said Brother Luke, 46, left Calcutta for the Bihar city of Patna on March 22 in a truck loaded with supplies for leprosy patients. "He was supposed to reach his destination the next day, but on March 24 we received a call from Patna that the consignment had not arrived, and we contacted the police of both West Bengal and Bihar," he said. Raju said the bodies of Luke, the driver of the truck and a handyman were recovered from a railway track at Nabada near the town of Gaya the same day. "Brother Luke was identified with the description of his body and his trousers. There was a hole in his head," he said. Raju said the superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, Sister Nirmala, attended the priest`s burial and led prayers in Gaya on Wednesday.

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