Seven Die in Tunnel on the Borderline in Rafah

  In the morning hours on Monday 27 July 2009, civil defense teams found the bodies of Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Moghyyar, 36, Yousif Hamdan Mo'amar, 24, Tareq Ibrahim Keshta, 19, and Tareq Sameer Keshta, 19.
The civil defense also rescued six others who sustained light to serious wounds in the fuel leakage incident inside a tunnel.
At approximately 2:30pm of the same day, the civil defense found the bodies of Tamer Ramdan As-Sayid Faraj, 24, and Issa Mohammed Al-Kisi, 24, in the same tunnel.
 At approximately 1:00pm on Sunday 26 July 2009, the civil defense found the dead body of Sami Saeed Keshta, 23, who had suffocated to death due to fuel leakage inside a tunnel near the Salah ad-Din Gate, west of Al-Brazil neighborhood at the border line between Rafah and Egypt.
In addition, two other persons were rescued from the same tunnel.
  According to Al Mezan's investigations, the leakage occurred at approximately 3am of the same day in a tunnel near the one in which these people died.
Two persons died due to the fuel leakage in this tunnel.
This raises the number of victims of tunnel industry to 101, 40 of whom died in 2009 alone.