The attack came a day after exploding pagers killed 12 people in Lebanon and Syria.
BEIRUT - Communication devices used by Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah detonated late Wednesday afternoon across the country's south and in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, killing at least 20 people and wounding 450, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The attack comes a day after exploding pagers killed 12 people in Lebanon and Syria, including two children, and injured around 2,800 others.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday denied reports that the US had any knowledge or involvement in the Hezbollah pager attack. Blinken was in Egypt Wednesday on his 10th trip to the Middle East to try to secure a Gaza ceasefire deal. Hezbollah, which was thrown briefly into disarray by the pager attacks, said on Wednesday it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets, the first strike at its arch-foe since the blasts, which raised the prospect of a wider Middle East war.
Images of the exploded walkie-talkies examined by Reuters showed an inside panel labelled "ICOM" and "made in Japan".The company has said that production of several models of the ICOM hand-held radio have been discontinued, including the IC-V82, which appeared to closely match those in images from Lebanon on Wednesday and which was phased out in 2014.The hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time as the pagers, a security source said.
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Friday over the pager blasts after a request from Algeria on behalf of Arab states, said Slovenia's UN Ambassador Samuel Zbogar, president of the 15-member council for September.
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