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GAZA, April 11 (KUNA) -- Five Palestinians were suffocated in a tunnel in
south Gaza Strip on Saturday, a medical source said.
Palestinian medics picked up five young people who were choked due to fuel
leakage in a tunnel in south Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, the source told
KUNA.
The injured people were rushed to hospital in the city for medical
treatment, he said, terming their condition as moderate.
Earlier in the day, three tunnel workers were injured in a tunnel cave-in
in south Rafah.
Palestinians dig tunnels to use them in smuggling food and fuel from Egypt
to Gaza due to the Israeli siege on the Palestinian territory. (end)
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