GAZA CITY: Gaza medics say four Palestinians have been found dead in a smuggling tunnel under the border with Egypt.
Health official Dr Moaiya Hassanain said the men suffocated to death from lack of oxygen in the cramped, makeshift tunnel.
Local residents say they were smuggling food into the strip, which has been under a crippling blockade since Hamas seized control there in 2007.
Hassanain said the men died Saturday, but were only found on Sunday.
The body of one man killed in the same incident was retrieved on Saturday making a total of five.
Halting Gaza s smuggling is a key issue in negotiations for a stable truce between Israel and Gaza s Hamas rulers.
The tunnels are used to smuggle food and consumer products, but also to run arms.
