GAZA CITY: Four more bodies were pulled out on Monday from a smuggling tunnel between Hamas-run Gaza and Egypt a day after its collapse, raising the death toll to at least five, medics said.
Rescue services were still searching the tunnel for two other missing people, they said.
On Sunday, a 33-year-old Palestinian man was found killed in the collapse and medics had initially said that six others working with him in the tunnel had been rescued.
Palestinians often die in cave-ins and other mishaps in the vast network of smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip.
Israel and Egypt have kept the territory sealed to all but essential humanitarian goods since the Islamist movement Hamas seized the territory two years ago.
Israel heavily bombed the network of smuggling tunnels during its 22-day offensive against Hamas at the turn of the year, but many of the tunnels were quickly rebuilt and new ones have been added. -AFP
