Gaza – Ma'an – A Palestinian man called Rami Ash-Sha'r, who was in his twenties, was killed on Monday afternoon and five others were injured when an underground tunnel collapsed in Brazil neighborhood, near the border with Egypt in the Gaza Strip. A sixth man was missing.
Witnesses said the tunnel was near area of the so-called Salah Addin Gate, a gap that was opened in the border wall by Palestinian fighters in late January.
The director of Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, Dr Ahmad Abu Naqira, said that five people arrived at the hospital suffering from suffocation. He affirmed that the injured were released from the hospital after they were treated.