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Lebanon was rocked by a second day of coordinated blasts targeting the communication equipment of Hezbollah members according to the Lebanese health ministry and media reports.
Three people were killed in the blast, the ministry reported, and hundreds were wounded according to a security source quoted by Reuters.
Walkie-talkies were the source of the explosions, Axios reported citing sources familiar with the matter.
The attacks come a day after pagers carried by Hezbollah members blew up across Lebanon and in neighbouring Syria in a likely Israeli attack which killed 12 people including at least two children and left up to 300 people in critical condition.
Hezbollah, which is armed and backed by Iran, blamed Israel for the attacks and vowed retaliation.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the original pager blasts and Israel's allies.
“Western countries and the Americans … fully support the crimes, killings and indiscriminate assassinations of the Zionist regime,” Pezeshkian said in a statement, referring to Israel.
