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The tunnel ran at a depth of 14m from the bottom of an elevator shaft built into a house in Tijuana to a

hole in the ground on the American side

One of the longest cross-border drugs-smuggling tunnels

between Mexico and the US has been found by authorit ies in

San Diego, American offi cials say.

They say the 800m (874 yards) tunnel was used to transport an"unprecedented cache" of cocaine and marijuana.

It was the 13th sophisticated secret tunnel found along California's

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border with Mexico since 2006.

But a local official described it as "ingenious" and unlike anything

seen before.

Three have been found on the same short street in San Diego that

runs parallel to a border fence with Mexico.

In the latest incident about 1,016kg (2,242lb) of cocaine and 6,350kg

of marijuana suspected of being transported through the tunnel was

seized, officials say.

The entrance to the tunnel on the American side was hidden under a big bin

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District Attorney Laura Duffy said smugglers were using the tunnel to transport large

quantities of cocaine and marijuana

"This is the largest cocaine seizure ever associated with a tunnel,"

Southern California District Attorney Laura Duffy said, and is the

second "super tunnel" to be discovered in recent weeks,

In March, authori ties uncovered a 380m tunnel that ran from a

restaurant in Mexico to a house in California.

The latest tunnel ran at a depth of 14m (46ft) from the bottom of an

elevator shaft built into a house in Tijuana to a hole in the ground on

the American side enclosed within a fenced-in lot set up as a pallet

business.

The hole was hidden under a trailer-sized rubbish bin that smugglers

used to move the drugs from the lot, federal officials said.

"They put the drugs in the dumpster and then hauled the dumpster

to another location to unload it," Ms Duffy said.

Federal agents followed a truck that took the bin to a central San

Diego location about 40km (25 miles) north of the border and

witnessed the cargo being loaded onto a box truck, which drove

away.

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The tunnel is the latest in a series that have been discovered on the US-Mexico border

San Diego County sheriff's deputies then stopped the truck and

seized the drugs, arresting three men in the process.

Ms Duffy said that federal agents searching the pallet lot and the

tunnel recovered additional supplies of marijuana and arrested three

more suspects.

The tunnel used in the operation was sophisticated, The Los

Angeles Times reported, and had a ventilation system and lighting.

On the Tijuana side, the tunnel was connected to an elevator thatascended into the house.

"I think it fair to say that few would suspect that traffickers were

moving multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana in this very

unassuming way, in full view of the world around them," the paper

quoted Ms Duffy as saying.

``It's a rabbit hole,'' she said of the latest tunnel to be found.

"Just the whole way that it comes up right out into the open is a bit

ingenious. It's something completely different than what we've seen

before."

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