Drug tunnel found on U.S.-Mexico border

Mexico police chief murder linked to border tunnel
04 Dec 2007 17:53:57 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Lizbeth Diaz

TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec 4 (Reuters - Gunmen killed the police chief
of a Mexican city bordering California on Tuesday by shooting him
some 50 times in an apparent revenge attack after police found a
drug-smuggling tunnel under the border.

Gunmen broke into the house of Tecate police chief Juan Soriano
in the early hours of the morning and shot him repeatedly in the
face and torso as he slept in bed with his wife, an official at
the Baja California state attorney general's office told Reuters.
His wife was not hit.

The killing of Soriano, who had started his job only last week,
appeared to be an act of revenge against Mexican police, who on
Monday discovered a tunnel nearly a mile (1.6 km) long running into
California from Tecate near the Pacific coast after a tip-off from
the U.S. Border Patrol.

"As soon as Soriano made public the discovery of the tunnel, he went
home and hours later, they executed him in his bedroom," said the
official, who requested anonymity.

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