2 injured, 3 missing in Gaza tunnel explosion

Two injured and three missing after cooking gas cylinder explodes in a smuggling tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt borders.

The Palestine Telegraph reports that two Palestinians were in a hospital receiving medical treatment due to injuries and burns sustained in the explosion.

Medical teams are still searching for three others.

Also involving a smuggling tunnel, yesterday a Palestinian died after a tunnel collapsed over him.

According to the Palestine Telegraph, “hundreds of Palestinians were injured or killed in similar tunnel accidents since Israeli occupation has imposed a suffocated siege for more than five years.”