Article 6QV5R Hezbollah device blasts: how did pagers and walkie-talkies explode and what do we know about the attacks?

Hezbollah device blasts: how did pagers and walkie-talkies explode and what do we know about the attacks?

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Jonathan Yerushalmy and Dan Milmo
from World news | The Guardian on (#6QV5R)

What sources are saying about the techniques behind the simultaneous explosion of thousands of devices across Lebanon

In an unprecedented security breach, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkie radios belonging to members of Hezbollah detonated across Lebanon in simultaneous explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding thousands of others.

Hospitals across Lebanon were overwhelmed with an influx of patients after the pager attack on Tuesday, and a field hospital was set up in the southern city of Tyre to accommodate the wounded.

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