Marisela Morales, Mexico top prosecutor, and federal police spokesman Alejandro Poire Wholesale Bags read a statement but did not take questions from reporters. Nor did they provide insight into why the criminals killed so many people, including scores of bus passengers probably headed to the United States.

Many of Cheap Handbags the corpses bear signs of devastating cranial trauma, and a sledgehammer found at the scene is thought to have been used in the slayings.

Mexican government is in Wholesale Handbags control of Tamaulipas, Poire said.

Warring gangsters have carried out several attacks in the state despite the added security. Officials said federal police have rescued 122 kidnapping victims in the past week Discount Handbags from three locations in Tamaulipas and arrested several local police officers suspected in the crimes.

On Monday, federal police raided a location in the border city of Reynosa where 51 victims were being held, including 18 Central American migrants and six Chinese nationals. Sixty eight victims were freed April 19 from another criminal safe house in the city.

Morales said that the kidnappers were demanding $1,000 to $2,000 from the victims families and that six Reynosa police officers accused of working for the Gulf Cartel had been arrested. Discount Bags

The grisly findings in Tamaulipas have overshadowed recovery efforts at another mass grave hundreds of miles away, in the city of Durango, where 75 bodies have Cheap Bags been found since April 11.