A truck driver speeding on a rain-slicked interstate in 2007 lost control and rammed a median barrier, setting off chain-reaction collisions that turned a tunnel into an inferno and left three dead, investigators concluded Friday.

The California Highway Patrol says speed, not faulty brakes, caused a big rig driver to lose control of his truck, triggering a deadly 2007 tunnel pileup on a major interstate highway.

Officials say a train with a technical failure has stopped in the world’s longest overland tunnel and has been evacuated.

The bodies of five Palestinian smugglers were pulled from a tunnel that collapsed along the Gaza-Egypt border, Gaza security officials said Wednesday.

A Palestinian official says two bodies have been pulled from a collapsed smuggling tunnel between Gaza and Egypt.

A fire broke out Thursday on a train shuttling trucks under the English Channel between England and France, injuring six people and suspending traffic in the undersea tunnel, officials said.

Officials say a fire broke out in the tunnel under the English Channel and caused undersea traffic to be suspended, but all passengers have been evacuated safely.

Mexico announced on Wednesday it will build a US$1.27 billion tunnel that will be almost 39 miles (62 kilometers) long and 7 yards (meters) in diameter, to help solve the centuries-old drainage problem of the nation’s capital.

A smuggling tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding 18, Palestinian security and hospital officials said Saturday.

A Palestinian health official says a tunnel used to smuggle goods across the Gaza-Egypt border has collapsed, killing two Palestinians.Health Ministry official Moawiya Hassanain said Thursday that five people were pulled out of the tunnel alive.Local...