Beirut. At least three people were killed and around 100 injured in Lebanon on Wednesday in a new wave of explosions involving communications equipment, official sources reported, the day after the deadly explosion of pagers used by the Islamist movement Hezbollah.
The three people were killed in an explosion involving “transmission devices” in Sohmor, in the east of the country, Lebanon’s National News Agency (ANI) reported.
The Ministry of Health reported “more than 100 people injured in a new wave of walkie-talkie explosions.”
The devices exploded simultaneously in the southern suburb of Beirut, where the funerals of four Hezbollah members killed the day before by the explosion of beepers were being held, according to a source close to the pro-Iranian movement and rescuers.
The explosions caused panic, according to an AFP photographer covering the funerals, including that of the son of a Hezbollah MP.
Other explosions were reported in Sidon in the south and Baalbeck in the east, where 15 people were injured, a hospital source told AFP.
On Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed and some 2,800 wounded in simultaneous beeper explosions in Hezbollah strongholds south of Beirut and in eastern and southern Lebanon, officials said.
Israel’s Mossad spy agency placed explosives inside 5,000 beepers imported by Hezbollah months before they detonated across Lebanon, killing at least 12 people and wounding nearly 3,000, according to reports. Via Graphic News
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