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Lebanon’s Well being Ministry says one killed, 100 wounded as extra explosions reported throughout the nation.
At the very least one particular person has been killed and 100 have been wounded in Lebanon in a new wave of blasts associated to communication gadgets, the Well being Ministry has stated, a day after 1000’s of pagers utilized by Hezbollah detonated across the country.
A number of explosions have been reported throughout Lebanon on Wednesday, with state-run Nationwide Information Company saying that pagers and “gadgets” exploded in Hezbollah strongholds within the east and south of Beirut.
The Iran-backed group’s Al Manar TV reported explosions in a number of areas of Lebanon, which it stated have been the results of walkie-talkies detonating.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem, reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, witnessed two explosions.
“There was a automobile that exploded simply behind us. On the similar time, there was an explosion at one other place [nearby],” he stated. “I’m presently in the course of the road. There are lots of ambulances, chaos all over the place.”
A number of blasts passed off concurrently, Hashem stated, just like what occurred on Tuesday.
“However this time, it was largely walkie-talkies or radios [that exploded],” he stated, including that reviews urged that photo voltaic gadgets and a few batteries in automobiles additionally exploded. Lebanon’s official information company reported that residence photo voltaic vitality techniques exploded in a number of areas of Beirut.
In Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan stated a blast was reported in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital metropolis.
“We’re listening to lots of ambulance exercise within the space suggesting there could also be nicely casualties coming right here or different hospitals close by, probably because of explosions inside Beirut itself.”
The brand new spherical of explosions passed off a day after pagers utilized by Hezbollah exploded practically concurrently in a number of places throughout Lebanon, killing at the least 12 folks, together with two kids, and wounding round 2,800.
Hezbollah and the Lebanese authorities blamed Israel for Tuesday’s assaults.
