Lebanon's Health Ministry says a child is among those killed by a wave of exploding pagers which the militant group Hezbollah uses to communicate.
Lebanon's health ministry says at least eight people have been killed and more than 2,750 others injured by a wave of pager explosions across the country. Hezbollah said it was investigating the cause of the blasts, which affected equipment which had been deployed only in the past two months.
In a statement, Hezbollah said a spree of simultaneous detonations killed two of its fighters and one girl, without directly accusing Israel of being behind the operation."The competent authorities in Hezbollah are currently conducting a wide-ranging security and scientific investigation to determine the reasons that led to these simultaneous explosions," the statement said.
A witness has told ABC News of seeing one of the pagers exploding on a man riding a motorcycle in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Three security sources told Reuters news agency the pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months.Lebanon's crisis operations centre, which is run by the health ministry, asked all medical workers to head to their respective hospitals to help cope with the massive numbers of wounded coming in for urgent care.
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