| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2008 
Air-Conditioned Drug Tunnel Found On Mexico-U.S. Border
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| | Mexican police discovered an air-conditioned drug-smuggling tunnel less than 60 meters (65 yards) from the US border in northwest Mexico, state police said Tuesday. Policemen surprised workers who were five meters underground digging a tunnel to the United States while they were searching a house in the border city of Mexicali, Mexican police said. (AFP/SSP) | | |
Mexican police Tuesday discovered an air-conditioned drug-smuggling tunnel close to the U.S. border in northwest Mexico, media reports, quoting the state police, said.
The tunnel was 140-meter-long, 1.3-meter-wide, and five-meter-deep and was found under a house during a patrol in the town of Mexicali, less than 60 meters across the border from Calexico in the U.S.
There was an electric rail for container transport, ventilation and lights as well as air-conditioning, said Juan Miguel Guillen, director of police in northern Baja California state.
He said eight suspects were arrested in this connection, adding that the detainees confessed that they were looking after the building where the drug tunnel was being built.
Meanwhile, agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) were carrying out excavations across the border to find the tunnel's exit point.
Most of the cocaine and marijuana that is smuggled to the U.S. is trafficked through Mexico, where drug-related violence has spiked since President Felipe Calderon, who took office at the end of 2006, launched a crackdown on drug trafficking. |
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