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Apart from the first 51 days of his captivity, during which he and an abducted Thai worker are held in the private house of a Gazan family, Mr. Sharabi spends all his time as a hostage in two different tunnels, the first of which he enters from a trapdoor under a rug in a mosque, the second from an entrance in the floor of a house.

The civil judgement said entry was via a trapdoor and a 60m-long curved concrete tunnel.

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She knows the location of the hidden trapdoor that leads to the rafters of the arch above the nave.

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That relegation trapdoor might be creaking open for Carlisle...

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Reading need them to keep the trapdoor to League Two firmly shut.

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