At least three people were killed and several people were injured in fresh explosions in Lebanon on Wednesday as walkie-talkies exploded in Beirut.
The explosions took place a day after pager attacks.
“Three martyrs fell after devices exploded in the town of Sohmor,” AFP quoted the state-run National News Agency.
The hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time that the pagers were bought, reported Reuters.
One explosions in an hand-held radios used by 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.
Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported explosions in multiple areas of Lebanon.
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.
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