US officials have reported to have discovered a drug smuggling tunnel along the US-Mexico border.
The underground passage is believed to be the longest, though it does not surpass the first one of its kind discovered in 1990; dug by drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzman according to the Daily Mail.
Axios said that Federal agents have found the "longest illicit cross-border tunnel ever discovered along the Southwest border," Customs and Border Protection said.
It is believed that the tunnel is about 1.2 km and stretches between California's San Diego and Mexico's Tijuana.
"The investigation continues, and I am confident that our hard work and dedication to uphold the law will lead to future arrests and seizures,"Deputy Chief Heitke said.
BBC reported that although, authority could not link anybody with the passage, there was no person arrested or seizure during the discovery.
Apart from smuggling drugs, the tunnel is also used to move people across the border and the finding regarding the tunnel, once found in August last year, were released on Wednesday following high identification and mapping of the entrance to its end by both the Mexican and US authorities.
"The sophistication and length of this particular tunnel demonstrates the time-consuming efforts transnational criminal organisations will undertake to facilitate cross-border smuggling," Cardell Morant, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego said.
The tunnel has air ventilation, electricity, rail and cart system with an elevator at the each entrance, and that lays 70 feet under the ground and is about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and two feet wide according to CNN.
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By Kennedy O.M