At least three people were killed on Wednesday and more than a hundred injured in a new wave of explosions of transmission devices, according to official sources, a day after deadly explosions of pagers belonging to members of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah.
Three people were killed in the explosion of “transmission devices” in Sohmor, in eastern Lebanon, the National News Agency (official) reported.
The Ministry of Health reported “more than a hundred injured in a new wave of walkie-talkie explosions.”
Walkie-talkies exploded at the same time in the southern suburbs of Beirut, at the time of the funeral of four Hezbollah members killed the day before in the explosion of pagers, according to a source close to the Lebanese Islamist movement and rescue workers.
The explosions caused panic, according to an AFP photographer covering the funerals of the four people, including the son of a Hezbollah MP.
Other explosions were reported in Saida (south) and Baalbeck (east), where 15 people were injured, a hospital source told AFP.
On Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed and some 2,800 injured in simultaneous pager explosions in Hezbollah strongholds in the southern suburbs, east and south of Lebanon, authorities said.
