Heba Press/. Agencies
Eleven people were martyred and hundreds were injured in Lebanon today, Tuesday, following the explosion of mobile pagers in the hands of Hezbollah members in an attack attributed to Israel.
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Al-Abyad announced on Tuesday evening in the latest report on the victims of the attacks that the number of martyrs had risen to 11 and that of the injured to 4,000, including 400 seriously injured.
The Internal Security Forces said in a statement: “Wireless communication devices of certain types were bombed in several Lebanese regions, particularly in the southern suburbs. “This resulted in injuries.”
She called on “citizens to free the roads to facilitate the treatment of the injured and their transfer to hospitals.”
The official Lebanese news agency also reported that “an unprecedented hostile security event occurred in the southern suburbs of Beirut, as well as in many Lebanese regions.”
