Fresh explosions in Lebanon: 9 dead, several injured as walkie-talkies detonates

At least nine people were killed and over 300 injured in fresh explosions in Lebanon on Wednesday as walkie-talkies, solar energy systems exploded in multiple regions, including Beirut.
The explosions of communication devices used by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group took place a day after series of similar pager blasts.
“Three martyrs fell after devices exploded in the town of Sohmor,” AFP quoted the state-run National News Agency.
One of the explosions in an hand-held radios used by Iran-backed Hezbollah detonated at the site of a funeral for three Hezbollah members and a child killed in pagers explosions.
Devices also exploded inside two cars in the area, reported AFP.
Reuters reported that the hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time that the pagers were bought.
Meanwhile, stating that these attacks will certainly be uniquely punished, Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, said there will be a bloodily unique revenge, Times of Israel reported.
Israel’s spy agency Mossad is suspected to have planted explosives inside pagers imported by Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, the death toll in pager attacks rose to 12, including two children, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said. Tuesday’s attack wounded nearly 3,000 people, including many of the militant group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut.
A Taiwanese pager maker Gold Apollo said that the devices were manufactured by a Hungary based company called BAC and denied that it had produced the pager.
Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, whose military declined to comment on the blasts. The two sides have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza conflict erupted last October, fuelling fears of a wider Middle East conflict that could drag in the United States and Iran.
Many of the wounded had severe injuries to the eyes, and others had limbs amputated, said Lebanon Health Minister Firas Abiad.
Abiad said the wounded had been sent to various area hospitals to avoid any single facility being overloaded and added that Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Egypt offered to help treat the patients.