Beirut : Hand-held radios used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon\u2019s south and in Beirut suburbs, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions were launched via the group\u2019s pagers.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said 14 people had been killed and 450 injured on Wednesday, while the death toll from Tuesday\u2019s explosions rose to 12, including two children, with nearly 3,000 injured.
\nAt least one of Wednesday\u2019s blasts took place near a funeral organised by Iran-backed Hezbollah for those killed the previous day when thousands of pagers used by the group exploded across the country and wounded many of its fighters.
\nA Reuters reporter in the southern suburbs of Beirut said he saw Hezbollah members frantically taking out the batteries of any walkie-talkies on them that had not exploded, tossing the parts in metal barrels around them.
\nLebanon\u2019s Red Cross said on X that it was responding with 30 ambulance teams to multiple explosions in different areas, including the south of Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley.
\nHezbollah, which was thrown briefly into disarray by the pager attacks, said on Wednesday it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets, the first strike at its arch-foe since the blasts wounded thousands of its members in Lebanon and raised the prospect of a wider Middle East war.
\nThe hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time that the pagers were bought, said a security source.
\nIsrael\u2019s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday\u2019s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source, and another source told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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