Fourteen dismembered bodies were found in a truck in the center of a town in northern Mexico in what appeared to be the latest atrocity committed by rival gangs battling over drug-smuggling routes

The bodies of 11 men and three women were discovered in the sugar-cane farming town of Ciudad Mante in the south of Tamaulipas state, which borders on Texas. Tamaulipas has been one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Mexico's drug war.