Mexican authorities have found 49 dismembered bodies on a highway near the northern industrial city of Monterrey. The gruesome find is the latest in a string of suspected drug related killings in the country.

The body parts were found stuffed into bags in the early hours of Sunday. It follows a similar incident last Wednesday, when 18 victims were found decapitated and dismembered near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara. Both cities are in the state of Nuevo Leon, which has seen escalating violence between rival drug cartels.

More than 47,000 people are thought to have been killed in drug-related attacks since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on organized crime in 2006.

Forensic technicians remove a body from a crime scene in the municipality of Cadereyta May 13, 2012.

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