Security guards at the detention camp at Ansar in southern Lebanon have discovered a tunnel being built by the prisoners taken during the Lebanon war, as an escape route.
The nearly six foct-wide tunnel was about 20 feet long and needed only a few more feet to reach open ground outside the prison compound. Guards believe the tunnel was dug at night and carefully hidden during the day. The Israel Defense Force has filled it in with concrete. Some 5,000 prisoners are at present held within the camp.
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