Nine people have been killed, thousands injured, and Lebanon is already blaming Israel in a tense Middle East. Here’s what we know about the pager bombings.
At least nine people were killed and nearly 3000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members - including fighters and medics -The detonations started about 3.30pm local time in the southern suburbs of Beirut, known as Dahiyeh, and in the eastern Bekaa valley - strongholds of the anti-Israel militant group Hezbollah. Lebanese security officials and aThey lasted about an hour, with witnesses and residents of Dahiyeh telling Reuters they could still hear explosions at 4.30pm.
The firm did not immediately reply to questions from Reuters. Hezbollah did not reply to questions from Reuters on the make of the pagers. In two separate clips from the CCTV footage of supermarkets, the blasts appeared to only wound the person wearing the pager or closest to it.
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