Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
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- Hezbollah calls it biggest security breach in war with Israel
- At least two Hezbollah fighters killed, the group says
- Iranian ambassador to Lebanon reportedly injured
- Lebanese Red Cross dispatches over 50 ambulances, 300 medics
- Injuries to limbs, face and eyes
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of conflict with Israel.
Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been engaged in cross-border warfare in parallel with the Gaza war which erupted last October, the worst such escalation in years.
The Israeli military declined to comment on Reuters enquiries about the detonations.
Hezbollah confirmed in a statement the deaths of at least three people, including two of its fighters. The third person killed was a girl, it said, adding that an investigation was being conducted into the causes of the blasts.
One of the fighters killed was the son of a Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament, two security sources told Reuters.
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, suffered a minor injury when a pager exploded, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"Amani has a superficial injury and is currently under observation in a hospital," Fars quoted a source as saying.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
Explode their pagers.... LOL
(IDF/Mossad hacked into it Hezbollah's communication system [closed], blasted the pagers with overload signals, and caused the pagers to either catch fire or explode. Basically, the pagers became explosive devices)
