U.s. Border Cops Find Massive Mexico Drug Tunnel

U.S. border cops find massive Mexico drug tunnel

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. border police have found a sophisticated smuggler's tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico and believed to have been used by drug traffickers, authorities said on Wednesday.

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