A series of explosions involving hundreds of handheld pagers used by Hezbollah has killed at least nine people and injured 2,700. The Lebanese government and Hezbollah accuse Israel of carrying out the attack as tensions escalate.
An ambulance arrives at a medical centre in Beirut after pager explosions kill at least nine people and injured almost 3,000.
Pagers are messaging devices that were commonly used up until the late-1990s before mobile phones became popular. After the explosions, the Lebanese government instructed all those who still had the pagers to throw them away.
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