Thousands of people were wounded across Lebanon in what was thought to be a cyberattack causing pagers carried by Hezbollah members to explode.
In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind attack, nearly 3,000 people were wounded across Lebanon on Tuesday — including at least nine fatally — after hundreds of electronic pagers used by Hezbollah members and others suddenly and mysteriously exploded. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency called it “an unprecedented security incident,” with pagers blowing up in Beirut’s Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs and several other areas.
Pictures on social media claiming to be from the attack depicted one shopper at a fruit market standing near a stall when his bag explodes. Another depicts a man in a shop holding a pager and putting it on a desk before it detonates, throwing him back. The Times could not independently verify the videos or the images. Dozens of ambulances crisscrossed Beirut’s streets carrying the wounded amid snarled traffic, while hospitals in the country’s south were inundated with casualties.
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