Beirut (Web Desk/Agencies): At least 10 people were killed and 2,750 injured due to pager explosions in Lebanon on Tuesday.
Pagers are a form of low-tech personal wireless communication device.
According to foreign media, the security sources revealed that Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran’s envoy to Beirut were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon.
The wave of explosions began at 3:45pm and continued for about an hour.
Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the detonation of the pagers - used by Hezbollah and others in Lebanon to communicate - as an "Israeli aggression". Hezbollah said Israel would receive "its fair punishment" for the blasts.
Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the detonation of the pagers - used by Hezbollah and others in Lebanon to communicate - as an "Israeli aggression". Hezbollah said Israel would receive "its fair punishment" for the blasts.
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, suffered a minor injury when a pager exploded, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported. "Amani has a superficial injury and is currently under observation in a hospital," Fars quoted a source as saying.
The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said.
It is pertinent to mention that Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been engaged in cross-border warfare in parallel with the Gaza conflict which erupted last October, the worst such escalation in years.