Walkie talkies used by Hezbollah fighters have detonated across Lebanon, killing three and wounding hundreds including mourners at funeral, witnesses and security sources have reported. Now confirmed that hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah.
Follow developments on Hezbollah bomb attacks on MailOnline's Iran 's envoy to Lebanon reportedly lost an eye when a pager exploded in his face during a deadly pocket bomb attack which tore through the country.
Video on social media reportedly showed Amani on a street in the aftermath of the attack with blood on his shirt.
Dozens of victims sustained severe facial injuries, with doctors explaining how they were forced to cut out victims' eyeballs. Lebanese soldiers detonated a suspected explosive device found in a pit in the parking lot of the American University Hospital in Beirut today The latest explosions this afternoon have hit the country's south and the capital Beirut, where dramatic time-lapse video shows multiple plumes of smoke rising above the skyline in different locations almost simultaneously.
Lebanese security officers check a partly damaged car after what is believed to be the result of a walkie-talkie exploding inside it, in the southern port city of Sidon Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi accused Israel of pushing the Middle East to the brink of a regional war by orchestrating a dangerous escalation on many fronts.
A drone hovers in the sky during the funeral of persons killed after hundreds of paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut todayThe Iranian Red Crescent said on Wednesday it had dispatched 'rescue teams and eye surgeons' to Lebanon to treat the wounded.
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