GAZA --  Two Palestinian citizens were wounded on Saturday night when the Egyptian security forces blasted a tunnel that they were working in, medical sources reported.

They told the PIC reporter that a big explosion rocked the so-called tunnels area south of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, which damaged a tunnel used to smuggle goods from Egypt into the Strip.

The sources said that two of the workers inside that tunnel were injured and rescue teams rushed to evacuate them.