OTTAWA — It was a baffling discovery: a hand-dug tunnel just over 33 feet long, tall enough for an adult to stand inside, fed with electricity, drained by a water pump and expertly reinforced with lumber and plywood. It started in dense woods near a tennis stadium — and it did not lead anywhere.
After more than a month of investigation by the Toronto police, the identities and motives of whoever built the tunnel remain as mysterious as they were the day it was found. So on Tuesday, the police turned to the public for help.
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Mr. Roberts expressed relief that the tunnel had come along to replace Rob Ford, the former mayor, as a source of perplexing headlines from Toronto. But until the city solved its “tunnel crisis,” he said, he intended to avoid riding the subway.
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