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Mar 5, 2008 12:00 am US/Central

Backyard Body Count Up To 14 In Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) ―

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Mexican investigators found two more bodies buried in the backyard of a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso.

Officials say that increases the tally of corpses found there to 14.

Federal agents began digging in the yard of the house in the La Cuesta neighborhood in February, finding nine dismembered bodies.

Five more, including two announced today, were discovered in the past week.

The federal Attorney General's office says five of the 14 bodies had been buried about five years ago.

The Attorney General's Office did not say how the victims died or who is believed to have buried their remains. But it did note that 3,740 pounds of marijuana were found in the house the initial raid.

Agents and cadaver-sniffing dogs continued to dig at the site tonight as investigators sought to identify the corpses.

Ciudad Juarez is a northern border city that is home to the Juarez cartel. It has been plagued by violence as Mexico's crackdown on powerful drug cartels stokes turf wars among traffickers that have been linked to hundreds of killings in the past two years.