Five Palestinians were killed on Sunday when a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip collapsed on top of them, medics said. No details on the victims were immediately available, they said.
Palestinians often die in accidents involving the hundreds of tunnel that snake underneath the enclave's border with Egypt. In the last such incident, four died on February 22 in a tunnel collapse.
Smuggling tunnels have mushroomed along the Gaza-Egypt border since June 2006, when Gaza militants seized an Israeli soldier in a deadly cross-border raid. Since then, the enclave's border crossings with Israel have remained largely closed, as has the one at Rafah with Egypt - the only one that bypasses the Jewish state.