[Ma'an] Egyptian border guards shut down a tunnel on Sunday used for smuggling cars into the besieged Gaza Strip, security sources said.The sources told reporters that the opening of the tunnel was 300 meters from the border with the Gaza Strip. A strict closure was imposed on the area before the tunnel was destroyed, the sources added. It was the second tunnel built to smuggle cars to be shut down in as many days.
The tunnel was reported to be two and a half meters wide, with a cement ramp on the Egyptian end built to allow cars to be pulled down into the tunnel and across into Gaza.
Hundreds of tunnels have been dug underneath the Gaza-Egypt border in order to counteract an Israeli-led blockade of the territory that has caused shortages of numerous goods.
Egypt is also reported to be building an iron barrier underground along the border in an attempt to physically cut off the tunnels.