Lebanese and Iranian media reported a second wave of wireless device explosions, a day after thousands of suspected Hezbollah terrorists were injured in near-simultaneous pager explosions, reportedly killing 12.
The second wave appears to involve two-way radio devices such as walkie-talkies.
At least one of these explosions Reported near the funeral of a Hezbollah operative killed on Tuesday Pager Explosion.
“We rushed to the scene to see what it was and people were running. People were covered in blood,” said Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford, who was at the funeral.
“There was blood on the car. A young man was running and looked very stressed. He said that a walkie-talkie that the Hezbollah security men around here use for funerals had exploded,” she said.
“The Hezbollah people then collected all the walkie-talkies and took out the batteries. Our cameraman was surrounded by very nervous and angry Hezbollah security personnel and told to stop filming,” she reported.
Crawford said the funeral “will go ahead as scheduled” despite the explosion, but that the crowd was “extremely tense” and Hezbollah operatives were “infuriated.”
Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV News Reported Three more people killed and dozens injured in Bekaa region. Lebanese Ministry of Health Reported More than 100 people were injured in southern Beirut and its suburbs, with most of the patients treated for hand and abdominal wounds.
The Lebanese Red Cross reported that 30 emergency services were “on high alert” and responding to “several explosions in different areas.”
Lebanese state media also claimed that some of the explosions were caused by explosions in home solar power systems, rather than by radio equipment.
