Three people have been killed in Lebanon’s Bekaa region in the east of the country in the latest device blasts, the state news agency has reported, a day after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah detonated across the country.
Multiple explosions have been reported across Lebanon on Wednesday, with Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reporting that pagers and “devices” have exploded in Hezbollah strongholds in the east and south of Beirut.
Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported explosions in multiple areas of Lebanon, which it said were the result of walkie-talkies detonating.
Al Jazera’s Ali Hashem, reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, witnessed two explosions.
“There was a car that exploded just behind us. At the same time, there was an explosion at another place [nearby],” he said. “I’m currently in the middle of the street. There are a lot of ambulances, chaos everywhere.”
media’s Imran Khan, reporting from Beirut, said a blast was reported in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital city.
“We’re at Hamra, which is sometimes referred to as the hospital area – there are three hospitals very close to each other,” he said.
“Now we are hearing a lot of ambulance activity in the area suggesting there may be well casualties coming here or other hospitals nearby, possibly as a result of explosions within Beirut itself.”
On Tuesday, pagers used by Hazbollah, a Lebanese Iran-backed group, exploded nearly simultaneously in Lebanon, killing at least 12 people, including two children, and wounding around 2,800.
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