Walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon on Wednesday.
Video and images of the explosions began to circulate on social media just after 5 p.m. local time.
One widely shared video showed what appeared to be an explosion in a large crowd of people.
A man holds a walkie talkie device after he removed the battery during the funeral of persons killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut’s southern suburbs on September 18, 2024.© Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters later confirmed that handheld radios had exploded across the country.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that the new wave of explosions hadkilled 14 peopleand injured 450 more.
Photos of the devices on Telegram seem to show anICOM IC-V82 walkie-talkie.
ICOM no longer sells the IC-V82 and the item is listed as discontinued on somethird-party seller sites.
Hezbollah has launched rockets into Israel and Israel has repeatedly threatened to retaliate.
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