Gaza City - Two Palestinians were killed Thursday when an underground tunnel dug for smuggling goods collapsed on them in the southern Gaza Strip, medical officials said.
Paramedics said they removed two dead bodies from the tunnel, which leads under the Gaza-Egypt border, to the east of the Rafah crossing. That crossing has been closed as part of economic sanctions on the Hamas-ruled Strip.
Two other people were injured and three others were missing, they said.
Officials at Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said identified the dead as Mohammed Abdel Atti and Mahmoud Abu Dan, both in their twenties.