This is 2nd consecutive day of such incidents, which killed 21 people and injured over 3,000 others so far
BEIRUT — At least 20 individuals have died and over 450 have been injured across Lebanon on Wednesday due to explosions involving hand-held radios or walkie-talkies linked to the militant group Hezbollah.
This sophisticated assault occurred just one day after a suspected Israeli operation targeted pagers used by Hezbollah for internal communication.
Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati assured the public that the second wave of wireless device explosions in Lebanon has ended and that no new injured people have been admitted to hospitals.
Mikati provided this update during his visit to the Ministry of Health to monitor the latest developments related to the explosions of pagers.
Earlier, Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that three people were killed in explosions in the town of Sohmor, southern Lebanon.
The news agency said wireless radios also exploded in the hands of users in Lebanon’s southern city of Tyre.
According to an Anadolu correspondent, explosions were heard in southern Beirut and several southern towns, resulting in fires that engulfed cars and residential apartments.
Earlier on Wednesday, Health Minister Firas Alabiad announced that the death toll from Tuesday’s pager explosions in Lebanon had risen to 12, including two children.
“The number of injured people ranges between 2,750 and 2,800, with around 300 reported as critical,” Alabiad added at a press conference in Beirut.
The new wave of explosions came amid an exchange of cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and Israel against the backdrop of a brutal Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip which has killed nearly 41,300 people, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year. — Agencies
