49 Decapitated bodies discovered on Nortehrn Mexico highway near Texas border
Mexico: 49 dumped on road as drug massacres soar
Monterrey, Mexico -- Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest massacre in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels.
Local and federal authorities discovered the bodies before dawn in a pool of blood at the entrance to the desert town of San Juan on a highway leading from the metropolis of Monterrey to the border city of Reynosa. A white stone arch welcoming visitors was spray-painted with black letters: "100% Zeta."
Mass body dumpings have increased around Mexico the past six months as the fearsome Zetas gang goes head to head with the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, led by fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.