ISMAILIA, Egypt, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and wounded an Egyptian policeman guarding a warehouse of goods seized en route to tunnels near the Gaza border, security sources said on Tuesday. The 21-year-old policeman, named as Fathi Salman Mohamed, was taken to hospital in the border town of Rafah on Monday night with a wound in his right shoulder and is in a stable condition, they said.

The gunmen escaped but police assume they are smugglers, who have attacked similar warehouses in the past, they said.

The hundreds of tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border were among the targets in Israel's recent offensive against Gaza.

Palestinians in the coastal enclave use them to smuggle in weapons and commercial goods, circumventing an Israeli-led blockade. (Reporting by Yusri Mohamed; Writing by Alastair Sharp)

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