GAZA (Reuters) - A smuggling tunnel being dug by Palestinians on the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed on Friday and at least five people were trapped inside, witnesses in the Gaza frontier town of Rafah said.
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Palestinian ambulances and rescue crews given clearance by Israeli forces rushed to the scene. Palestinian officials said earlier accounts that two men had been extracted from the tunnel were incorrect, citing poor communications in the area.
communication nothing. they oughta worry more about their engineering.
"We are still digging, we cannot yet determine their fate," a security official said by telephone from Rafah.
bet they'd trade those 72 virgins for one of those John Deere's about now -- the same John Deere's that ISM petitioned the company not to send to Israel
Militants have dug many tunnels from Egypt into Gaza to slip in arms but other tunnels have been used solely to smuggle contraband like cigarettes. It was unclear whether the tunnel that caved in had been burrowed by militants or traders.
leave it to reuters to provide a hint of legitimacy somewhere in their copy.
The Israeli army maintains a security strip along Gaza's frontier with Egypt and has carried out numerous bloody raids into adjacent Rafah to root out suspected tunnels. But militants have kept digging them under the noses of troops.
. . . and to make Israel out to be the bad guy
On Sunday, militants killed five soldiers by detonating 1,500 kg (3,310 pounds) of explosives in a tunnel burrowed under an army post in the corridor, a stretch of desert dunes. It was one of the most sophisticated attacks ever by Palestinian baby murderers terrorists militants against an Israeli military post near the volatile Rafah crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip. Another five soldiers were wounded in the attack, the deadliest against the Israeli army in seven months. |