A secret tunnel discovered last week on the U.S.-Mexico border will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official in Ciudad Juarez said Saturday. The tunnel, discovered on Jan. 10, connects the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez with the Texas city of El Paso.

Security has been ramped up on both sides of the border ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump.

A tunnel along the border wall in Texas, going from Mexico into the U.S. and believed to have been used by smugglers, was discovered last week.

A smuggling tunnel was recently discovered in a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in El Paso, Texas, authorities say. State and federal border protection agencies along with officials from Mexico conducted a joint operation last week in which they found a man-made tunnel that likely is used to smuggle people into the country.

A secret tunnel used to smuggle migrants and contraband between Mexico and the United States has been discovered and will be sealed, according to Mexican border authorities. The 300-metre-long tunnel connects Ciudad Juarez in Mexico with El Paso, Texas, two neighbouring cities on either side of the US-Mexico border.

Workers have begun using concrete to close a narco tunnel that officials believe was build within the past year. The tunnel investigation continues.

Mexican and US authorities on Friday discovered a clandestine tunnel under the Rio Grande River, which connects Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua to El Paso in Texas. The passage was used for human trafficking,

Several federal agents have reportedly found a sophisticated "narco tunnel" in El Paso, Texas that has reportedly allowed cartel members to smuggle drugs and even humans into the U.S. undetected by border officers.