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Decapitated bodies found on Mexican highway

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    Drug dealers leave dozens of mutilated corpses?

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An anonymous tip leading Mexican authorities to at least 49 mutilated bodies dumped on the side of a highway.

That highway between Monterey Mexico and the US border.

The victims naked torso stuffed into garbage bags their heads and hands removed.

Look what -- but it's -- they were transported to the site.

A -- left at the scene giving credit to this status the letter Z scrawled on an -- nearby.

-- wouldn't do -- -- to grab people's attention but most of all the attention from the rival gangs the killings in the Northeastern State are the worst there since 52 people died.

In an arson attack on a casino last August.

That attack also blamed on the statements.

Mexican authorities -- these violent attacks on rival drug trafficking gangs battling for control of the lucrative north eastern court or of Mexico.

On Capitol Hill last week the FBI director asked about his agency's battle against drug trafficking first of all.

The public corruption.

Secondly we have task forces addressing kidnappings across the border and lastly.

In the most important part of it is the accumulation of intelligence that can help our partners south of the border.

While the death total climbs each week it's estimated more than 50000 people have been killed since December 2006.

That's one Mexico's president launched a military led assault on the country's powerful drug cartels.

In New York Laura Ingle Fox News.

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