A nap ends in a tunnel for the famous drug dealer "Chapo" gang.. Video
Martín Rios, 26, had fallen into a deep sleep at home when, still on his sofa, he felt himself sinking into the bottom of a deep pit.
Rios, who lives in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, was asleep when a loud noise woke him up around 4 a.m. on May 10, and when he opened his eyes he found himself in a dark bottom, his mother and two cousins looking at him in astonishment from a height, when he discovered that a pit had swallowed him With his sofa and a small table was beside her.
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"I thought I was dreaming," said Rios.
As if you were dreaming that you were falling, but this time I was not dreaming.”
The sofa on which the young man was lying fell from a height of about 10 feet (three meters), but the young man sustained only minor injuries.
The collapse was caused by the fact that the tunnel built by drug dealers about 10 years ago in a nearby house was not properly closed or filled, according to local news reports.
According to neighbors, the secret tunnel ran under at least eight homes, some of which were also damaged.
"We didn't know there was a tunnel under us," said Rios.
"I remember when I was a teenager, the police came to that house because they found drugs or something, but they didn't say anything about the tunnel."
It is believed that the pit in which Rios fell may have been built by members of the notorious Sinaloa gang that controls the city.
The tunnel is located in the Jardines de Humaya neighborhood near a well-known cemetery where many of Mexico's most famous drug dealers are buried in luxurious cemeteries.
The city became famous recently because of the reputation of drug gangs presented by the famous series "Narcos", one of which was dedicated to the gangs of Sinaloa.
In 2015, one of the cartel's original founders, known as Chapo, escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico using a tunnel connected to his bathroom.
In 2019, he again escaped a police and army raid on one of his homes in Sinaloa through a tunnel before being captured for the third and final time.
In March 2020, US agents found $30 million worth of drugs in a 600-meter tunnel in San Diego.
An abandoned drug-smuggling tunnel that ran underneath a house in Mexico collapsed, swallowing a man who was snoozing on his couch.
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