Terrorist group Hezbollah claims eight people have been killed and dozens injured after pagers used by its troops exploded.
Hundreds of pagers explode in Lebanon, Hezbollah blames Israel | WION Pulse
Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad reportedly claimed that 2,750 people were injured, over 200 seriously, after the pagers across Lebanon reportedly heated up and then exploded. Mojtaba Amani, Iran's ambassador to the country, was also reportedly injured.
The Lebanese Red Cross has deployed 130 ambulances and more than 500 EMTs to deal with the aftermath. It has issued an urgent call for blood donors in the country.
A Hezbollah representative told Al Jazeera that "pagers belonging to employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions exploded." Video footage of the explosions suggests the pagers were rigged with explosives, rather than the batteries being shorted to cause a fire, which would be a much slower process involving heating before any explosion.
