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Published: 08.15.2007
7 suspected illegal immigrants saved from flooded tunnel
DAVID L. TEIBEL
Tucson Citizen
A group of seven suspected illegal immigrants was saved from possible death this week when U.S. Border Patrol agents, U.S. Customs officers and Nogales, Ariz. firefighters pulled them from a flooded border tunnel, a Border Patrol spokesman said.
The seven all were from the Mexican state of Puebla and were trying to get into the United States through the Morley Tunnel, which runs under the Nogales Port of Entry, said Border Patrol agent Michael Scioli
The Tuesday night rescue began shortly before 8 p.m. when customs officers heard screams coming from the tunnel and called for help from firefighters, Scioli said.
Firefighters and customs officers went in to the tunnel, which was running hard with rain run-off, and spotted six people clinging to various objects in the tunnel, Scioli said.
The firefighters and customs officers pulled the six to safety, Scioli said.
But, the rescuers, by then joined by three Border Patrol agents, still heard screams coming from inside the large drainage tunnel, Scioli said.
The patrol agents went into the tunnel through an access tunnel and then along a catwalk on the side of the main tunnel, Scioli said.
From the catwalk they spotted a woman clinging to a piece of rebar, screaming for help.
The agents threw a rope with a loop tied into one end, told her to put the loop around her body and after she did they pulled her to safety, Scioli said.
A number of immigrants have died in past decades during the monsoon season when they were swept away by water in the Morley tunnel.

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