Drugs violence in Mexico claims more victims

Mexican authorities discovered three beheaded victims, some 500 meters from the fence that separates Mexico from the U.S.

Drug violence has reemerged in Tijuana, along Mexico's northern border with the United States, as authorities discovered three beheaded victims, some 500 meters from the fence that separates Mexico from the U.S.

Violence of this kind had not been seen in Tijuana since authorities said there was an attempt for a truce between rival gangs.

Meanwhile hundreds of heavily armed soldiers fanned out across Mexico's bloodiest drug war city -- Ciudad Juarez -- trying to prevent a collapse in law and order.

SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) RESIDENT, GABRIEL FLORES, SAYING:

"Well it feels much calmer now in Juarez after so much violence there is here. One feels much calmer now that more soldiers have arrived."

Ciudad Juarez is now a crucial battleground of a war that killed more than 6,000 people across Mexico last year and is scaring off investors in cities near the U.S.- Mexico border.

The Mexican army expects to have 7,500 soldiers and federal police stationed in Ciudad Juarez by the end of the week.

Jon Decker, Reuters.