Salvadoran ex-soldiers turn themselves in after indictment in priests' murder

Nine former soldiers have turned themselves over to a court in El Salvador after being indicted in Spain in the 1989 killings of six Jesuits and two other people during the civil war in the central American country.

El Salvador said on Monday that the nine former soldiers turned themselves in at a military base and were handed over to a Salvadoran court.

A 10th suspect in the Spanish case has since died, and 10 other suspects have not been located.

Salvadoran officials have said it is unlikely that El Salvador's supreme court will vote to extradite the men to Spain.

Spanish courts have used international jurisdiction doctrines to prosecute the killings of the priests, five of whom were Spanish.