Palestinian man killed, 11 injured in tunnel collapse

A Palestinian man was killed and eleven others injured in the collapse of a tunnel at the Egyptian-Palestinian borders on Friday.

Medical sources said that Basem Al-Shaer, 25, was killed in the tunnel collapse to the south of Rafah, noting that the tunnel was shelled during the eight-day Israeli aggression on Gaza.

The sources described the condition of the injured as moderate to serious, adding that three of them suffered broken bones. They said that the workers were trying to fix the tunnel that was damaged in the Israeli shelling.