GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, March 13 (APP/AFP) – A second
Gazan was found dead Sunday after the collapse of a tunnel on the Egypt border, the interior ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said.
On Thursday, rescue services said seven men had been trapped in the
collapse.
Five were rescued, but on Sunday the ministry said they had retrieved
the body of Mohammed Abbas of Rafah, after announcing the death of a man named as Fadi Abu Dan.
A local civil defence official described the underground passage from
the southern Gaza town of Rafah into neighbouring Egypt as a “trade tunnel”.
The cave-in was caused by Egyptian flooding of the border zone in its
campaign to stop smuggling, the official told AFP.