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Mexico Drug Violence Continues Unabated
Newspaper Counts More Than 700 Slayings Since January

POSTED: 2:09 am EDT April 17, 2007

MEXICO CITY -- Police found 17 bodies stuffed in cars or dumped on streets in garbage bags across Mexico on Monday in the latest wave of violence apparently triggered by warring drug gangs.

In the resort city of Cancun, the bodies of three men and two women were found in a sport utility vehicle, their heads covered and their hands bound behind their backs.

Federal investigators say the two cartels are fighting a turf battle over billion-dollar drug trafficking routes to the United States.

According to one newspaper tally, there have been more than 700 drug slayings since January.