Six Arab prisoners held at the Ansar detention camp in south Lebanon were crushed to death in a tunnel under the camp through which they had hoped to escape.
The IDF spokesman said that bulldozers had been at work in a section of the camp being razed after new accommodations had been built on concrete or asphalt bases to prevent escape tunnels from being built.
The tractor suddenly sank into the earth, breaking through the surface into a tunnel already dug in which six inmates had been hiding. In a search of the area after the incident two more prisoners were found hiding underground in another tunnel.
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