Hundreds of members of the Shiite armed group Hezbollah and others were injured in pager explosions in Lebanon. The news agency reports Reuters.
The incident is said to have occurred in the Dahie suburb of Beirut, where local media footage showed devices used by Hezbollah members for wiretapped communications exploding among people going about their daily business in the middle of the day.
“In an unprecedented incident in the southern suburbs of Beirut and some other parts of Lebanon, personal communication devices of the call system were blown up under the influence of high technology. Dozens of people were injured,” reported the NNA news agency.