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A massive state-of-the-art tunnel used to smuggle drugs between Mexico and the US was discovered by authorities during a raid, federal officials announced on Wednesday.
Tons of cocaine and marijuana were seized when authorities found a tunnel that stretched across the border of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico on Wednesday.
A drug tunnel was discovered on Tuesday beneath the US - Mexico border, San Diego 6 reported. US federal officers were patrolling near the San Ysidro Port of Entry fence when they found a sinkhole in the ground. The discovery led them to an underground tunnel that connected the northern edge of the Mexican city of Tijuana with the south end of San Diego.
Mexico announced on Tuesday that its army has discovered an unfinished drug smuggling tunnel beneath a half-built house in Tijuana, close to the U.S. border.
A Honduran national admitted Wednesday in the federal court in San Diego that he tried to smuggle about 25 kilos cocaine across the Mexico-US border using an underwater tunnel, EFE reported.
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