Border tunnel found under officers’ noses
Police in Tijuana have discovered a narrow tunnel under the border that was used to smuggle drugs and possibly undocumented migrants into the United States, officials said.
More than 50 tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border have been found in the last five years.
The latest was found inside an area guarded by Treasury Department officials, according to a Public Safety department spokesman who was not authorized to give his name.
Officials were investigating how the tunnel, about 32 feet long, 2 feet wide and 3 feet high, came to be used so close to where federal officials were on duty, the spokesman said.
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