[Ma'an] Ma'an -- Two Palestinian workers were killed in smuggling tunnels underneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the city of Rafah on Sunday, medics said, marking an uptick in fatalities.Medics at Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah said Ghasan Barakeh, 25, was electrocuted in a tunnel.
Earlier, officials said an unidentified man arrived at the same hospital after suffocating to death when a tunnel collapsed on him in the As-Salam neighborhood of Rafah.
Sixteen people were injured by collapsing tunnels in the past week. Egyptian security forces also discovered and shut down five such tunnels.
The tunnel trade is the only reliable means of importing many goods made scarce in Gaza by an Israeli-led blockade that began in 2007. Hundred of such tunnels are now known to exist.