More devices are blowing up in Lebanon a day after Hezbollah pagers fatally exploded
Hezbollah fighters, part of a force in Lebanon that has been targeted in multiple attacks affecting communications devices.
Hand-held radios exploded across Lebanon on Wednesday, according to multiple reports, potentially signaling a second wave of coordinated attacks targeting personal devices in the Middle Eastern country.
The official broadcaster of the Hezbollah militant group, Al-Manar, reported a wave of explosions from wireless devices across Lebanon, according to local and international media.
Hundreds, possibly thousands of #Hezbollah two-way radios were just detonated across #Lebanon. Video footage shows one during a funeral for 4 #Hezbollah operatives killed by their pagers yesterday. pic.twitter.com/fyjyw0H1rD — Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) September 18, 2024
The number of killed and wounded in the latest round of explosions is unclear.
The reported explosions follow a similar incident Tuesday in which scores of pagers used by Hezbollah members simultaneously detonated across Lebanon.
At least a dozen people were killed, and thousands more were left injured by the blasts.
A security service source told Reuters that the devices that detonated on Wednesday, hand-held radios or walkie-talkies, were purchased around the same time as the pagers that exploded on Tuesday. One of the explosions was at a funeral for people killed the day before.
