JERUSALEM: A Palestinian was killed and five others were missing on Tuesday after the second deadly collapse this week of a smuggling tunnel between Hamas-run Gaza and Egypt, medics said.
They said the recovered body was that of a 23-year-old man.
On Sunday night, a tunnel collapse killed seven people, with a 33-year-old man found right away and the bodies of the six others pulled out by rescue workers over the course of two days.
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
