Mexican drug smuggling tunnel unearthed
A 240-yard-long drug smuggling tunnel under the US-Mexican border has been unearthed.
The six feet by two feet tunnel, equipped with lighting and ventilation, was discovered on Saturday when officers raided a business on the Arizona side of the border, which concealed the US entrance.
Three people were arrested, according to a statement about the US operation by federal and local law enforcement bodies.
The US raid was coordinated with the Mexican military, which entered an ice-making plant across the border, said the US statement.
The “sophisticated” tunnel, which was 55 feet underground, led from the Arizona town of San Luis to the ice plant across the border in Mexico in San Luis Rio Colorado.
The tunnel’s US entrance was located in a storage room hidden beneath a large water tank, in a one-story “nondescript” building. US authorities had been monitoring the business since January due to “suspicious activity.”
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