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One Person Dies; another Injured in Tunnel Collapse on the Gaza-Egypt Border

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23 May 2011

At approximately 4am on Monday 23 May 2011, civil defense teams recovered the dead body of Mustafa Mohammed Abdel 'Al An-Najjar, 35, who had been working in a tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border near Al Brazil neighborhood, south Rafah town.
He died when the tunnel he was working in collapsed.
Abdel Kareem An-Najjar, 30, was injured in the same incident.
According to medical sources at Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, his injury was moderate.
Abdel 'Al and Anajjar are from Khan Younis district.