A Palestinian young man was killed and three wounded on Saturday after an underground tunnel under the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt collapsed, witnesses and medics said.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian health ministry said that the body of Imad el-Ashi, 20, was found under the rubble of a collapsed tunnel under the border with Egypt.
Hassanein said that three were found alive under the tunnel and were taken to Rafah town hospital for urgent medical treatment. Witnesses said the four entered into the tunnel on Friday, which collapsed early on Saturday.
Two weeks ago, another Palestinian was killed when another tunnel under the border between Gaza and Egypt collapsed on him. The Palestinian health ministry said that ten were killed under tunnels over the past two years.
Palestinian smugglers dig tunnels under the closed borders between Gaza and Egypt to use them for smuggling goods from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, which has been under a tightened Israeli blockade for more than nine months.
Israel conditions ending the blockade on Gaza on Palestinian militants halting rockets attacks at Israel and stopping arms smuggling from Egypt into Gaza.
Source: Xinhua
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