A Palestinian worker was killed on Saturday in a smuggling tunnel under the borderline between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt by electric shock, medical sources and witnesses said, Xinhua reported.
The sources told Xinhua that Mahmoud Aabed, 23, was killed after he received an electric shock in the tunnel, adding that he died before taken to a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
The sources said the police of the deposed Hamas government opened investigation over the circumstances of Aabed's death. Aabed, according to witnesses, was smuggling food products.
The Palestinians dug hundreds of tunnels under the borders between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after Israel imposed a tight blockade on the enclave which has been ruled by Hamas since June 2007.
Gaza-based rights groups said that around 160 workers were killed over the past three years. Most of them were killed after several tunnels collapsed. The tunnels are used to smuggle goods that Israel doesn't allow into Gaza.
However, the tunnel business in the Gaza Strip had declined after Israel eased its blockade following its naval commandos attack on a Gaza-bound aide flotilla in May 31 last year, when nine activists were killed.