Скачать или смотреть Secret drug-smuggling tunnel found in Mexico

(13 Jul 2012) STORYLINE
The Mexican army has discovered a sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnel along the US-Mexico border.
The tunnel began under a toilet sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana, but was unfinished and didn't cross the border into the city of San Diego in the United States.
The drug-smuggling tunnel, which was discovered on Wednesday, was outfitted with lighting and ventilation systems.
General Landeros Briseno, the commander of the second military zone in Tijuana, said the tunnel was approximately 10 metres deep, one metre wide, 1.7 metres tall, and 150 metres long, without an exit.
Authorities discovered a similar tunnel in Arizona on Saturday in a vacant storefront in the southwestern Arizona city of San Luis.
The Tijuana tunnel had been under investigation by US authorities for three months, and they found no connections to the smuggling operation involving the Arizona passageway.
As US authorities heighten enforcement on land, tunnels have become an increasingly common way to smuggle enormous loads of heroin, marijuana and other drugs into the country.
More than 70 passages have been found on the border since October 2008, surpassing the number of discoveries in the previous six years.
A total of 156 secret tunnels have been found along the border since 1990, but the vast majority were incomplete.


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