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Rafah, Gaza Strip (AFP / Reuters) - Palestinian police accused Egyptian security forces killed four smugglers from the Gaza Strip and wounded three others Wednesday by blowing up their cross-border tunnels.

Top pressure from Israel and the United States, Egypt attempted to block the roads of the peninsula Sinainya secret, allowing the Palestinians to import weapons and goods by businesses violates Israel's blockade.

By blowing up a bomb underground, the Egyptian security forces destroyed a tunnel where seven smugglers were working, on Wednesday, said a Palestinian policeman. Three people died from inhaling smoke and those exposed to four due to flying debris.

Three other injured people taken to hospital in Rafah, a Palestinian town on the border of Egypt.

Egypt, which now is building an underground wall along the border that usually do not talk about anti-tunnel efforts.

Many residents sympathize with the Palestinians and Egypt, the Hamas group that controls Gaza and refused to promise to stop the violence against the Jewish state.