It wasn’t Al Qaeda. It wasn’t future Pan Am Games spectators eager to get closer to the action. According to Toronto Police, the mysterious tunnel discovered in January near York University and the Rexall Centre, a site of the upcoming Pan Am Games, was simply built as a place for a couple of guys to spend time.

“There was nothing nefarious, there was nothing criminal, it was literally them doing it for a place to hang out,” Const. Victor Kwong said of the two builders who have no background in engineering.

Police announced Monday morning their investigation into the tunnel, who built it and why, has been closed.

Police were able to identify two men in their 20s who “built the tunnel for personal reasons” and confirmed that there was never any “criminal intent nor any threat to the people or city of Toronto,” according to a statement.

After significant media attention generated “enormous interest” in the case, police received information on Feb. 27, which led them to identifying the two men who built the tunnel.

Police aren’t releasing any more information about the builders, who are not facing any criminal charges.

“There’s no criminal intent for digging a hole,” Deputy Chief Mark Saunders previously told the Star.

The tunnel — 10 metres long and 2 metres high — had previously stumped police, who were alerted to the tunnel’s existence after a Toronto and Region Conservation Authority employee found it in a heavily wooded area on Jan. 14.

Inside, officers found an electric generator, tools, food and drink containers as well as a rosary decorated with a Remembrance Day poppy, which hung on a nail on the tunnel’s wall.

Authorities have since filled in the tunnel, which Saunders said looked as though it had been built by hand using shovels.

Although officers are still following up on a few leads in the investigation, they are satisfied there was no criminal intent or security threat, according to Det. Scott Whittemore. Police are not releasing any more information about the two men involved.

“We’ve had murders where the million-dollar question is ‘Why?’ and you never really get to that, you just figure out who did it and how they did it, and that’s where we’re at now with it — the who and how is covered,” Whittemore said.

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“It’s very weird, but we have to take them as we’ve learned, and it was personal reasons,” he said.

He confirmed the two men, residents of Toronto, have no ties to York University as students or employees.

With files from Wendy Gillis and Robin Levinson King