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Drug tunnel found under US-Mexico border

17.11.2011 [11:30]
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Baku, November 17 (AZERTAC). US authorities have uncovered a major drug-smuggling tunnel under the US-Mexico border, the latest such find on the troubled frontier.

US and Mexican officers seized at least 12 tonnes of marijuana and arrested two people linked to the sophisticated tunnel, which linked warehouses in Tijuana in Mexico and Otay Mesa on the US side in southern California.

The 400-metre-long tunnel, complete with electricity and ventilation, was unearthed on Tuesday by the multi-agency San Diego Tunnel Task Force after authorities spotted a suspicious truck leaving the Otay Mesa warehouse.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service trumpeted the find as a major victory over Mexican drug cartels responsible for vast trafficking across the border into to the United States.