Cairo Denies Hamas Charges About Gassing Tunnels

The Hamas government has accused Egypt of deliberately killing four Palestinians with poison gas in a tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip, reports Xinhua, China's state news agency.

Six people were also injured in the incident, according to the Hamas Interior Ministry.

An Egyptian official denied the allegations, also saying that security forces did blow up the entrances and suggesting that fire might have used up the oxygen in the tunnels, reported the New York...