The dismembered bodies of at least 14 people were found in an abandoned pickup truck in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the scene of a violent drug turf war, authorities said.

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Mexican police said Sunday they had found 49 mutilated bodies dumped in black plastic bags near the northern city of Monterrey, in an apparent flare up of brutal drug violence.

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Police found the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 15 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico on Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing between powerful drug gangs.

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Mexican authorities found seven human heads on a street in a town in the northern state of Durango Thursday, but did not immediately find the bodies.

"The discovery was reported at around 6:00 am (12

Mexican officials said Wednesday almost 13,000 people died in drug violence in the first nine months of 2011, pushing the death toll since the start of a five-year military crackdown above 47,000.

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Two vehicles containing 16 charred bodies were found early on Wednesday in Culiacan, capital of the violence-wracked northwestern state of Sinaloa, in what officials say is macabre message between riv