GAZA CITY: Three Palestinian brothers were killed on Friday in the collapse of a smuggling tunnel along the Gaza Strip s border with Egypt, medics said.
A fourth Palestinian, who was also working in the tunnel near Rafah, was seriously wounded, the sources said.
Deadly cave-ins are common in the tunnels used to smuggle food, goods and, according to Israel, weapons and explosives into the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israel heavily bombed the vast network of tunnels during its deadly 22-day offensive on Gaza at the turn of the year, but many tunnels were quickly redug.
Tunnel operators say Egypt too is cracking down on the underground smuggling, pumping sewage or gas, or throwing explosives into the tunnels. -AFP
