Lebanon’s state news agency says at least three people have been killed in explosions in the Bekaa area, while security sources tell Reuters that hundreds of people have been wounded in a series of new explosions across Lebanon.
Hand-held radios used by the Hezbollah terror group detonated late this afternoon across the country’s south and in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, a security source and a witness said.
At least one of the blasts took place near a funeral organized by Iran-backed Hezbollah for those killed the previous day when thousands of pagers used by the group exploded across the country.
“A number of walkie-talkies exploded in Beirut’s southern suburbs,” the source says, with Hezbollah-affiliated rescuers confirming devices had exploded inside two cars in the area.
The initial attack has been blamed on Israel, which has not commented.
Footage appears to show Hezbollah walkie-talkie exploding
Footage circulating on social media purports to show the moment a Hezbollah walkie-talkie exploded a short while ago, during a funeral in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut.
The funeral was reportedly for one of 12 people killed in the pager explosions yesterday.
Fresh explosions reported in Lebanon, involving different Hezbollah communication devices
Explosions have been reported by Lebanese media in several other areas of Lebanon in the last few minutes, and not just in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut.
According to some of the reports, the blasts were caused by communication devices in use by Hezbollah.
Images circulating online purport to show the devices, which appear to be different from the pagers that exploded yesterday.
Several new explosions reported in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood
Lebanese media outlets report that several explosions were heard a short while ago in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut.
Further details are not immediately known.
Dahiyeh is known as a Hezbollah stronghold.
The reported explosions come a day after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah exploded in an alleged Israeli attack.
UN rights chief demands accountability for Lebanon pager blasts
Those responsible for a deadly wave of explosions across Lebanon targeting paging devices used by members of Hezbollah “must be held to account,” the UN rights chief says.
“Simultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, whether civilians or members of armed groups, without knowledge as to who was in possession of the targeted devices, their location and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law and, to the extent applicable, international humanitarian law,” Volker Turk says in a statement.
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