A Hezbollah official says walkie-talkies used by the group exploded across Beirut, a day after pagers blew up on Tuesday.
Beirut, Sept.18.– In a second day of exploding devices, handheld radios used by Hezbollah detonated late on the afternoon of Sept. 18 across southern Lebanon and in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a security source and a witness told Reuters.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least nine people were killed and 300 were injured by the second wave of explosions.
At least one of the blasts occurred near a funeral organized by the Iran-backed Hezbollah for those killed the previous day, when thousands of pagers used by the group exploded across the country, wounding many members of the terrorist group.
Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported explosions in multiple areas of Lebanon, which it said were caused by detonating walkie-talkies ...
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